LOW TIDE HOTEL

LOW TIDE HOTEL is a DADA day at the beach…flotsam and jetsam coming ashore. It is a nostalgic postcard, a surrealist voyage through maritime atmospheres. The message in the bottle is poetry. The waves roll away and comedy looks up like a clam.

The show’s aesthetic conjures the days of ocean travel on ships, drawing inspiration from antique maritime documents, luggage labels, posters, literature and song.

Low Tide Hotel was selected as a 2007 Capital Fringe Best Bet and was voted best comedy (tied with For Boston) by the Washington City Paper. It was remounted at the

Round House Theater Silver Spring in February 2008 and was also a sell out hit at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC in May 2008.

Justin Thomas was the lighting designer.

Here’s what the Washington Post had to say:

“For a really satisfying cultural riff, however, you’d have had to take in “Low Tide Hotel,” an enchantingly whimsical montage of maritime-themed songs and literary excerpts performed three times last weekend. Cast members Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell and Scott Sedar lent mystery and humor to a script that sampled songs such as “Moby Dick” and even the Police’s “Message in a Bottle.” The retro visual aesthetic — straw boaters, a hatbox, a tray of saltwater taffy — dovetailed beautifully with Jaster’s foley-artist-style sound effects, which included “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” played on a musical saw.”
Celia Wren
Special to The Washington Post

Tuesday, July 24, 2007; C08

Review from the Charleston City Paper

Spoleto Buzz – Low Tide Hotel : A Hidden Gem

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