Word: colm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colm is a salty, naive fisherman who meets and falls in love with Timothea when she comes to her cousin's wedding in the small seaside town where he lives...
Timothea, who works for a publishing company, decides to make Colm Liverpool's new poet when she secretly publishes his writings to her in a book called Sea Sonnets. She presents the book to him one night before dinner, and Colm is wondrous. "What is a sonnet anyway?" he asks, and when Timothea explains that these sonnets are his poems, he replies that they are really nothing more than marks--sea marks...
Gunn's performance is equally exceptional. She creates a rich character, richer, perhaps, than even the script intended. Her eyes really do sparkle; she really does blush; and we believe her eagerness when she opens Colm's letters. We trust the warmth in her voice when she plainly states, "I do love you, my darling." Occasionally, Gunn seems more a mainstage actress, when her movements are somewhat big for the small Dunster House JCR, but her performance is nonetheless wholly believable and delightful to watch...
Completely real also seem the anger in Timothea's voice when Colm is late for his first poetry reading and the grief in Colm's cries when his father dies. Neither actor overshadows the other; the orchestrated give and take between them makes the show intensely moving, and saves it from artificial sentimentality...
...strength of their performance together transforms the JCR into a small Liverpool flat and the cars on Memorial Drive into waves pounding the Irish coast. They let the audience, for a couple of hours, follow the movement of the lives of Colm and Timothea, and in any performance, this accomplished is a rare thing indeed...