Gardner McKay's 1971 "Sea Marks" actually has two settings: the island off the west coast of Ireland where fisherman Colm Primrose, played by Peter Christian Hansen, lives a solitary existence and Liverpool, where Timothea Stiles (Stacia Rice) resides. A long-distance correspondence between these two virtual strangers turns into a wooing as Timothea is swept off her feet by Colm's poetic musings on his island existence, bounded by the routines of the sea.

Rice and Hansen create a wonderfully electric chemistry that lends sparkle to this unlikely tale, and director Ellen Fenster carefully modulates the tone as the focus moves back and forth between the two. Hansen's Colm is a complex combination of passion and innocence, consumed with awkward embarrassment when he has to admit to Timothea that he's a "35-year-old spinster man," yet masterfully eloquent when describing the emotional impact of the death of a friend. Rice offers a nice counterpoint with a character whose sprightly charm overlays a steely resolve to live her life on her own terms. The production offers a thoroughly delightful staging of this rarely produced play.