May 28, 2021 – June 6, 2021
Sophia Islet has trouble sleeping. It isn’t insomnia or sleep apnea that troubles her: it’s her vivid nightmares of drowning and the very real underwater creatures that follow her back to her flooding apartment when she wakes up that give her grief. While Sophia struggles to cope with her impossible situation, over half a century in the past two sailors on a raft—Hans & Nikolai—try to stay afloat as sharks circle them & a mysterious siren tempts them with promises of love & immortality under the sea. Inspired by body horror, sea shanties, the weird fiction of Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Terry Gilliam movies, The Hidden Sea is a darkly comic tale about anxiety, cosmic synchronicities, mermaids, and lovestruck pet shop boys.
Directed by Sarah Starling & set in an animated world created by designer Aleks Hollis using RPG Maker MZ, The Hidden Sea stars Katherine Anne Abruzzese, Tim Briggs, Xavier Jacob Morris, Lamar Overton, and Alison Stanley.
The Hidden Sea will stream via Space 55’s Twitch and YouTube channels May 28-June 6. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30pm. The show is free to watch (donations are always appreciated). The performances have built in closed captioning.
