A SEA-SOME MEDLEY

Performance, 2006

A play in 3 acts performed by the 2006 participants of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine. It was a medley of 4 classic maritime tales (Moby Dick, Titanic, The Odyssey & Apocalypse Now) performed on Lake Wesserunsett to viewers who watched from boats. The cast included a shipwrecked narrator, Ishmael, Leonardo DiCaprio, Odysseus, Marlon Brando, a drunken sailor, Peter Coffin, Captain Ahab, a harpoon, Dennis Hopper, Queequeg, a figurehead, Kate Winslet and her mother, the FCC, the Goddess Athena, Telemachus, Penelope, a boom man, a Greek Chorus of flaming and waving sailors, a bow and arrow, Moby Dick, an iceberg, and several libidinous suitors.

Musical accompaniment was provided by a jug band orchestra and drinks were served by mermaids from a floating Irish Coffee Bar.

WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY:
Ben Kinsley, Jennifer Dudley, Alex Singh, Katie Creyts, Sarrita Hunn

PERFORMED BY:
The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture 2006

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Louisa Van Leer, Katja Mater, Marcella Faustini, Byron Kim

VIDEOGRAPHY:
Kambui Olujimi, Ryan Widger, Luke Lamborn