Ocean Filibuster is a genre-crashing music theater piece that invites audiences into an intimate relationship with the ocean, revealing ocean and human systems to be intricately entwined. Set in a future Global Senate, Jenn Kidwell embodies both Mr. Majority– Senate leader, proposing a bill to end the ocean as we know it– and The Ocean, appearing in human form to defend itself. The show uses large-scale video projection, an interactive intermission and an “ocean choir” to implore audiences to examine life out-of-balance: out of balance with the earth and with each other.
Ocean Filibuster is being developed on unceded territories throughout the U.S., including on the lands of the Lenape, Wappinger, and Munsee in NY; the Wangunk in Middletown, CT; the Pawtucket in Cambridge, MA; the Karankawa, Sana, and Coahuiltecan in Houston, TX; and the Houma, Choctaw, Atakapa, Coushatta, Chitimacha, Caddo and Tunica people in Southeastern Louisiana. We acknowledge this land was violently stolen from these these native people and will amplify their rightful sovereignty as we engage with audiences through our work.
