Oceanside at Merrimack Repertory Theatre

The past doesn't always come calling back -- sometimes it texts. At least it does in Oceanside, the riveting new drama from Nick Gandiello (Off the Realness), now receiving its world premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Gwen thought she had escaped her troubled past when she receives a text from her ex-husband. Soon he shows up in person, bringing with him both news of their adult daughter's disappearance and some of the very demons Gwen sought to keep from her idyllic new life. Characters navigate the treacherous waters of addiction, memory and delusion in this deep new work directed by Melia Bensussen.