A short time from now, the world will begin flooding.

Part theater, part science experiment, and part media-bomb, WATER (or the secret life of objects) seeks to explore human relationships to the environment in the face of profound ecological threat–how we as a global community overcome tragedy, surrender to it, or exist in the spaces between.

Combining visual-art installation with fragmented scenes, monologues, videos, sounds, narration, and audience interaction, we take water as our theme, in all its facets: as a powerful and beguiling element, as an object of political debate, and as a life force.

Creative Team

Initiated and led by director Daniella Topol and playwright Sheila Callaghan, WATER is being devised by a creative team comprised of Katie Down (sound), Leah Gelpe (video and projections), Mimi Lien (set),  Tyler Micoleau (lights), and a company that includes 15 multi-lingual actors.

Solar One

We’re partnering with Solar One, a green energy arts and education center in New York City, to build a wider social action and education campaign around the production, to deeply engage a diverse audience in dialogue about our environment, and to provide tangible strategies for further individual and community action.

Based in a solar-powered classroom in Stuyvesant Cove Park on Manhattan’s East River waterfront, Solar One is dedicated to providing people of all ages with the vision, knowledge and resources to achieve an environmentally sustainable future. Since 2001, they have been offering free, innovative public programs that focus specifically on energy efficiency, renewable energy and green building in the urban environment.  Solar One’s education, green arts, and outreach initiatives engage more than 25,000 people each year. Learn more about Solar One.

Friends and Supporters

WATER was initially developed as part of the HERE Artist Residency Program, and has been made possible with generous support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, CUNY Martin E. Segal Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Fordham University, Lark Play Development Center, the Princess Grace Work-In-Progress Award, and the Greenwall Foundation.

WATER is produced by Vicious Bear Productions, which is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of Vicious Bear may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.