The creators of the theatrical installation “Sun & Sea” (Sept. 15-26, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music) address climate change without pedantry. The cast (pictured at Seaside Regional Park, in Lithuania) lies around a beach as the audience engages in people-watching from fifteen feet above the stage. The work’s musical and visual surfaces are “very light and very pleasurable,” the director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė notes, and viewers needn’t dive any deeper. Those who do, the librettist Vaiva Grainytė adds, “feel this threat throbbing beneath.”
The Musical Art of “Sun & Sea,” at BAM
In a theatrical installation directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the cast lies on a beach onstage, addressing climate change without pedantry.
Photograph by Iveta Gabaliņa for The New Yorker
