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Watching someone elses vacation has gone, in the past two years, from difficult to excruciating.
Thirteen are vocalists; the rest are supernumeraries ready to mill around and kick sand.
A couple discusses whether its time to go in the water.
Children chatter and play.
A dog is taken (dragged) for a walk.
And as the people laze on their pastel towels, they also sometimes sing.
Our swimsuits are filling up with algae!
the whole room sings in chorus, complaining that the ocean is turning green, blooming with eutrophication.
You should not leave your children unobserved!
The musics dazed laziness infects them and infects us, too, so we cant always comprehend these warnings.
Originally,Sun & Seawas a commission for the Lithuanian pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Theonlyresponsible kind of vacation?
The joke of the titleSun & Seais that we arent really seeing either one.
The show is about questioning pleasure, and I think its intentional that it sort of ruins your night.
The music is spare, turning lush only during the collective choral moments when the whole room rings.
Perhaps this isnt just an opera?
Maybe its aversion therapy for our leisure-obsessed generation?
Sun & Seais at the BAM Fishman through September 26.
