THE OCEAN SEA is Cantabile 2’s innovative stage adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s novel of the same name. A fascinating story inspired by the frigate Medusa’s tragic sinking in 1816, where 150 starving cadets resorted to murder and cannibalism in their futile struggle for survival.

The audience is invited along to an old resort by an abandoned coast. The seven hotel guests meet here – two are survivors from the Medusa shipwreck. There is a well-renowned portrait painter, an eccentric professor, a timid girl, a beautiful femme fatale, a priest and a young man thirsting for revenge. Their stories intertwine during their stay at the resort, and all of them are transformed forever.

OCEAN SEA is an intense work, where classical storytelling is united with minimalist performance and physical theater, as well as a visual performance with Cantabile 2’s characteristic imagery and sweeping sensuality.

Director: Nullo Facchini
Scenery: Bjarne v. H. H. Solberg
Costumes: Maja Ravn
Light design: Adalsteinn Stefansson
Cast: Siri Haff Andersen, Thomas Bentin, Burkhard Forstreuter Ulrik Stets Hilden, Paolo Nani, Thomas Leth Rasmussen, Anana Rydvald and four children.

The Ocean Sea has received funding from i.a. Kunststyrelsen, Københavns Kulturfond, Instituto Italiano di Cultura.