Park Theatre will host the first translation of Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea, Italian playwright Emanuele Aldrovandi’s satirical, absurdist play about Europe’s migration crisis.
Set in a not-too-distant future, the continent’s economies have collapsed and three travellers find that the tables have turned as they are forced to flee the very countries which had once closed their borders to migrants. Placing their lives at the mercy of a mysterious people-smuggler, they embark on a journey in a claustrophobic shipping container in the hopes of a better life.
The cast will feature Yasmine Haller (Comédie-Française), Felix Garcia Guyer (Lift), Will Bishop (Entropy) and Marco Young (Another America). Aldrovandi’s play is translated by Marco Young and directed by Daniel Emery.
Aldrovandi is an Italian playwright with multiple awards in his home country. His plays have been translated, performed and published in English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, Catalan and Arabic, and the plays he has translated into Italian include Trainspotting, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Laramie Project.
The production comes from Riva Theatre and The Playwright’s Laboratory in association with Park Theatre.
Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea will run at Park Theatre’s Park90 from September 13-30, 2023.