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Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me
Cupola Bobber's 4th evening length performance.
"I do not believe that these men sit by the sea all day and all night so as not to miss the time when the whiting
pass." - WG Sebald
An internal adventure of miniscule proportions, Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me studies the action of
the Sea, both as mythology and as presence, and asks: why is it people are drawn to the Sea? Performing the destructive magnetism
of The Sea using Cupola Bobber’s home-spun minimal aesthetic and poker-faced absurdist charm, the show builds a remarkably
engaging exploration of how the Sea functions as a dwarfing muse of existential contemplation, a place of leisure, and as
heartless destroyer. All this explored through the locations of British Edwardian sea-side resorts and surrounding “work
towns”, the disappeared sea-side town of Hallsands, the dissapearing town of Dunwich, and 1930’s dust bowl Kansas.
Using a multi-layered square tarp artfully manipulated to locate the performance in the sea, on the land, in the sky, and
in the theater, and with inspiration from the performance duos of Laurel and Hardy and Gilbert and George, the duo Cupola
Bobber create an insightful and rewarding multifarious pastiche full of intelligence, fortitude, generosity, and imaginative
wit.
“Looking for machinery, we discovered the sea. We walked across the bay, and had to imagine the water; we went swimming
in the sand. Looking for perspective, we found ourselves upside down. ‘...and so on and so on, picture after picture,
incident after incident, a drifting panorama of ever changing, ever dissolving views manufactured by my mind without any help
from me.’(Mark Twain) “ – Cupola Bobber
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Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me is a National Performance Network Creation Fund
Project co-commissioned by Links Hall and PS122 in partnership with the National Performance Network. Major contributers of
the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the
National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.
This show is being co-produced by Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster.
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