Many of Wendy Kesselman’s haunted plays hint at another world of savagery. Servants murder their mistresses in her Obie Award-winning My Sister in this House; there is unspeakable horror just offstage in her Tony-nominated The Diary of Anne Frank.

In this play, written especially for the Festival, she has found her other-world in the sea, and in the depths of the commercial art world. Asked to collaborate with a Cape artist she suggested Jim Peters, painter, sculptor, and environmental artist who assembles paint, wood, and what-have-you to construct alternate (and sexy) landscapes and tableaux.

When TW lived at the Cape he spent his time with artists – Fritz Bultman, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock – this collaboration is meant to revive that camaraderie.