SeaChange: Reversing the Tide
Should everything dance to humanity’s tune, or does such a self-important view lead to the destruction of life on earth?
This question is addressed by the performance piece SeaChange: Reversing the Tide. By combining the knowledge of science with the wisdom of poetry Roger Payne and Lisa Harrow argue compellingly that man is not the overseer of life but an integral part of life’s complex web, and that our survival requires that we attend not just to our own wellbeing, but also to the wellbeing of the entire web of life.
Written and performed by Payne and Harrow, and including the poetry of Shakespeare, Shelley, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and others, SeaChange: Reversing the Tide offers an exposé of the consequences of humanity's current indifference to natural laws. For more information about SeaChange, visit www.seachangeinstitute.org.
Redshift Productions Presents Five Special Performances
of SeaChange: Reversing the TIde
at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Thursday, May 24th, 31st, June 7th at 2pm.
Sunday, May 27th, June 3rd at 7pm.
Purcase tickets for SeaChange here or by calling 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide is sponsored in part by the American Premiere of Phallacy by Carl Djerassi.
The Creators of Sea Change
Lisa Harrow
Lisa started her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing Olivia in Twelfth Night, opposite Judi Dench. With the RSC she also played Desdemona in Othello, Lady Amaranth in Wild Oats, and Portia in Merchant Of Venice (opposite Patrick Stewart). Outside the RSC, London Theater highlights include Juliet in Rome and Juliet, Eliza in Pygmalion, and Anne Whitfield in Man and Superman opposite Peter O'Toole.
Her film career started in Rome, starring opposite Glenda Jackson in The Tempter for which she won the Variety Club's Most Promising Newcomer award. Gillian Armstrong's film, Last Days of Chez Nous, earned her Australia's Oscar for Best Actress. Her film Sunday, opposite David Suchet, won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance in 1997, and gained her an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress.
Her many TV credits include Nancy Astor in the PBS/BBC series of the same name and Playing Shakespeare, (known as the John Barton tapes) which introduced her to countless drama students across America. Her most recent miniseries, Jessica, made in Australia, won the Silver Plaque Award for Best Miniseries at the 40th Chicago Film Festival.
Roger Payne
Roger is a renowned whale biologist, and Founder/President of Ocean Alliance (based in Lincoln, Massachusetts). Although he is best known for discovering (with Scott McVay) that humpback whales sing songs, he also discovered that the songs of blue and fin whales can carry across oceans. He is also the founder of a research project on right whales in Argentine waters that is the longest continuous study of any whale species based on individually identified animals (now over 1900 known individual right whales). He has led over 100 expeditions to study every species of large whale and his Institute’s research vessel ODYSSEY has recently completed a five and a half year trip around the world during which it collected samples from 928 sperm whales in all oceans. The analysis of these samples is measuring the degree to which the world’s oceans are contaminated with heavy metals, POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants), and brominated fire retardants. (The results so far indicate serious contaminant levels).
Payne is the inventor of many of the techniques for studying whales that are now used worldwide. His former students are now leading whale scientists. His many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship (dubbed by the media: The Genius Award), a knighthood in the Netherlands, a UNEP "Global 500" Award, the Albert Schweitzer Medal of the Humane Society (shared with Katy Payne), and the 2007 Oxford University, Dawkins Prize.