Below the Pacific (3W, 2M, 1-2 either; Tragedy)

 

New Play Festival Production at the University of Iowa

May 8, 2015

Director: Marina Bergenstock

Composer: Joseph Z. Adams

Music Director: Frankie Rose

Scenic Designer: Melissa Gilbert

Costume Designer: Josh Christofferson

Lighting Designer: Cassie Malmquist

Sound Designer: Rob Bergenstock

Violence Designer: Lukas Brasherfons

Stage Manager: Rachele Ekstrand

Assistant Stage Managers:

Tim Mizones and Brigidta de Souza

Dramaturges: 

Alyssa Cokinis and Alice Doherty

 

 

After American Airlines Flight 13 mysteriously disappears in the Southern Pacific Ocean, everyone - human, god, or animal - is shocked into searching for their "missing peace".

A man searches for his wife through karaoke and the Internet from their home in California.

A crash investigator from New Zealand searches a wreck for answers to waiting families.  

A flight attendant searches for an escape from a sea god's prison through a captive mermaid. And a jellyfish simply searches for a friend in the darkness.  

 

Below the Pacific focuses on these intertwining journeys of finding lost loves and love lost in the bottom of the coean after tragedy - and wheter these lives can find freedom from their solitary existences. 

 

CAST

Doug:           Skyler Matthias

Kai:              Aneisa Hicks

Marina:        Madeline Ascherl

Mei-Lei:       Weiyi Zhang

Takaroa:       Morris Hill

Jellyfish:      Christopher Matheson and Matt Schutz

Diggin' the set?  Feel free to see more of Melissa Gilbert's scenic (and costume!) work at: http://www.melissalgilbert.com/