Jake Gyllenhaal is a stage animal for sure. But he needs more feral turf in ‘Sea Wall/A Life.’
7 / 10
The hallmark of a truly inspired stage actor may not be what he or she does with outstanding material, but what they can accomplish with the run-of-the-mill stuff. By that measure, a sustained ovation is due Jake Gyllenhaal for his yeoman work in 'Sea Wall/A Life,' a pair of rather humdrum monologues by British playwrights Simon Stephens and Nick Payne that made it to Broadway - chiefly, it appears, because the popular Gyllenhaal is in one of them.
