Neil Pepe's production of Simon Stephens' "On the Shore of the Wide World" will not please all. The pace is consciously slow " like the life lived by these characters. However, the wait is worth the effort. By the end when the family reunites for Sunday dinner, the play has become both powerful and poignant. The title, incidentally, comes from the next to the last line of John Keats' sonnet, "When I have fears that I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PM on September 21, 2017