Kellie Tori

The Ocean After All

by Wil Greenway

 

SOLD OUT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2019

 

Written and performed by Wil Greenway

Music by Kathryn Langshaw

Directed by Kellie Tori

Produced by Nick James Clark

 

You’re stood there by the sea. You’re under the sky and over the sand. It’s sunny and salty, birds and waves. Lots of different types of blue. And something else. Just there, look, a bottle. A salt crusted glass bottle with a scroll of paper inside. Open it.

 

“The Ocean After All is, on the surface, about a man trapped on a desert island, a message in a bottle, and a jumbled, jogged memory that slips and slides under the audience’s feet. Underneath though, it’s about friendships that drift apart, lives lived in a daze, and a lot more betides.”

★★★★ The Stage

 

“And so, you’re here, you’re there, you’re everywhere. Together, you make up for lost time and without warning, an entire year passes in one hour. The narrative is almost biblical. It has the feeling of morality tale - something sacred and far-reaching. It’s funny too, deliciously so. It is easy to see why Greenway’s shows have sold-out for four years running. He is the type of human to get lost with. A natural navigator to help hold your fists against the night, knuckle to knuckle, star to star.”

★★★★ A Younger Theatre

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