Well, it wasn't truly awful. The staging can be marvelous in its ingenuity, the acrobatics signifying the underwater bits are gorgeous to watch , and the set is the star of the production. But the play is poorly constructed, overloaded with dull, didactic monologues, and directed with little humor and stodgy Masterpiece Theater style period acting. Most of the actors are lifeless and monotonous, sorry to report, especially the guy who opens the play. Only two of the performers (Ned & Professor) achieve any real life and color, plus whoever played the Pearl Diver (no credit in the program!). The actor playing Nemo was over-the-top more often than not. Here's another theatrical adaptation of a novel employing the most inappropriate and overused device in theater -- narration. That's for radio drama. You need to show us the action in live theater, not tell us about it. I enjoyed the puppetry which had a quaint Victorian toy theater feel, the acrobatics, and the ingeniously designed set.

Dreadful , Sixty five dollars of water logged misery. Left at half time and filled the void with two dips of Giradelli ice cream on a waffle cone. .