Clockfire Theatre Company and House of OZ present Emily Ayoub and Madeline Baghurst’s critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning show Plenty of Fish in the Sea. Making its Edinburgh debut this August off the back of its success at Sydney and Adelaide Fringe.
A castaway is rescued from the surging seas to the devout fishing village of Saint-Cotriade, here he meets a nun and her silent apprentice Bernadette, who introduce him into their unique religion. Conversation is sparse and his temporary lodgings in their ancient fishing monastery brings him face to face with an unsettling kind of hook-up culture.
Inspired by hook-up culture and dating, taking a very literal approach to the old adage, Plenty of Fish in the Sea is a fantastical and absurdist fable that begins as a story of rescue and becomes an unsettling dissection of dreams and desire. Told using a mix of physical theatre, gesture, narration and an original soundtrack the company bring an irreverent Australian energy to Edinburgh.
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