Ocean Filibuster

The Ocean gets the chance to tell its side of the story in this new music theatre experience from Obie Award-winning theater company PearlDamour. Ocean Filibuster explores the intimate, critical relationship between humans and the ocean. Using large-scale projection, a locally cast “ocean choir,” and augmented reality technology, <i>Ocean Filibuster</i> is an epic battle of wits and wills, smarts and sass, facts, and anthropocentric fiction.

Linking below-the-surface mystery with above-the-surface climate issues, Ocean Filibuster puts audiences in the middle of a human/ocean showdown. Set in a future Global Senate, performer Jenn Kidwell embodies two rivals: Mr. Majority– who introduces a bill to end the ocean as we know it–and The Ocean, arriving in human form to filibuster the bill. Originally commissioned by American Repertory Theater in collaboration with Harvard University’s Center for the Environment, Ocean Filibuster draws from myth, stand-up, and science plunging us into the most heated debate of our time.