Beyond the Sea

Whip-smart and witty...cleverly, playfully, unpredictably, near-relentlessly funny...Gave me more and better laughs than any show I've seen in years. Da Silva's two complex, likeable, fully human and slightly haunted characters shared a great deal with each other and with us and the result is an evening of superb theatre.

The Buzz, PEI
Sean McQuaid

I didn’t expect to have my heart broken by Gwen and Theo, the two exquisitely drawn characters in Beyond the Sea. But there you go. Real theatre can have a way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it. It does for sure in Da Silva’s heartwarming new play about loss, longing and the possibility of brave fulfillment. Her look at two life-scarred characters, who meet by serendipity one late afternoon on a pier, perhaps in Port Dover, is enchanting...Her dialogue is natural and moving, even when she allows Gwen to fly off into some fantasy world about the sea and the poor drowned “Woman in White” from Wilkie Collins’ Victorian novel. And then there’s Theo. Even when he’s at his most incredible, explaining the neglect and stupidity that lost him his bored and unfaithful wife, we want to hug him...it is 75 minutes of pure wonderful theatre.

The Hamilton Spectator
Gary Smith