Sea of Tranquility

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Well into Howard Korder's Sea of Tranquility, Nessa -- a woman in an unsatisfying marriage and suffering from an undiagnosable rash as she's writing a book on archeology -- says to an adulatory Native-American named Milton, "There must be some lesson about life here. I wish I knew what it was." Later, the shriveling Nessa, who seems to embody the playwright's sour message about the way we live now, remarks to her family-counselor husband Ben in regard to their problem-riddled ranch-style house, "Whatever was holding it up...rotted. You need to dig down. See what's underneath."

These ominous lines are land mines that Korder buries in his script and then clumsily steps on himself. Thinking[...]