A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things: An Aquatic Spectacular of Conservation and Change
Inspired by the Weeki Wachee Springs Mermaid Park - one of the nation's oldest roadside attractions (and smallest cities) - A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things is a floating fantasia, staged on board a docked barge in Brooklyn's historic Red Hook district.
A man floats on the open ocean, clinging to his best friend - an ever-shrinking bit of iceberg. He gazes below the surface of the water and thinks he sees ... mermaids performing Ibsen's Lady from the Sea? Elsewhere, a salty sea captain shuttles back and forth from the miles-wide vortex in the North Central Pacific known as the Garbage Patch, delivering messages in bottles and smuggling the impossible. Elsewhere still, a marooned sea creature rants and a strange disease is spreading. All will collide in a mythic place called Florida.
9 Performances Only!
April 23-May 9
Friday-Sunday at 7pm
All seats $18
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Conceived and directed by Jessica Brater
Written by Katya Schapiro with the company
Produced by Catherine Wallach and Polybe + Seats
Featuring the work of Carmel Amit, Jason Binnick, Bevan Dunbar, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Jenni Lerche, Ai Ling Loo, Gwendolyn McKenzie, Stacey Cooper McMath, Elaine O'Brien, Natalie Robin, Sarah Sakaan, Eugene Michael Santiago, Hilary Thomas, Lindsay Torrey, Ari Vigoda, and Eli Kaplan-Wildmann.
For more information about this project and directions to the barge, please visit http://www.polybeandseats.org/slimy.html.