Making Waves

Synopsis

For Mike, being a volunteer lifeboat man is his passion. He's always on the alert, ready to run for the boat whenever the alarm is sounded. It can be difficult for the rest of his family, living with the local hero. But things look up when eldest son Sam comes to visit after five years living in the fast lane in New York. However, it appears that Sam's homecoming might spark off all kinds of revelations. This time, the danger is not only at sea...

Our Review:

8 May 2003

For an island race, we Brits are unbelievably insular. Historically we crawled from the sea and none of us live more than 80 miles from it. The salinity of human blood is, apparently, exactly the same as that of seawater. "It's not just big and wet, you know," says one of the characters in Making Waves, "it's home."

But, a home which constantly threatens to reclaim us, yet we live our lives as oblivious to it as if we were landlocked. Unless, that is, you happen to live in one of the 224 communities around our periphery which is host to a lifeboat station.

Scarborough is one such community and the lifeboat culture is in its bloodstream. Under commission from the Stephen Joseph Theatre Stephen Clark has written a very fine play steeped in that culture and director Daniel Slater - himself a former lifeboat man - has a fau...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (217.137.173.16) - 30 April 2003:

As usuall an excellent production also true to life story line especially in a seaside town...

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