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| | Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Pretension sinks 'Sea of Tranquility' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Howard Korder's talky meditation on dislocation -- spiritual, physical and familial -- sinks under the weight of its own pretensions, stranding not only the audience but a hardworking cast of 11 actors who gamely carry on as the plot, allegedly a dark comedy, gradually dissolves into murkiness. |
 | | The play, which opened Thursday at off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company, concerns the professional and private tribulations of Ben, a fortysomething family counselor. |
 | | He's left the East Coast with his wife, Nessa, to settle in the desert, specifically Santa Fe, N.M. Now Nessa (Patricia Kalember), a writer, has come down with a mysterious rash, while Ben (Dylan Baker), appears to be melting under a mid-life crisis. |
| www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/02/25/pretension_sinks_sea_of_tranquility (362 words) |
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