Moving Water

The Museum of Science, Boston is proud to present a limited run of Serious Play Theatre Ensemble’s groundbreaking piece, Moving Water, written by Eric Henry Sanders, with Original Music by Jonny Rodgers, and directed by Sheryl Stoodley. In the face of rising sea levels, Serious Play Theatre Ensemble’s new devised theatre piece, Moving Water, addresses the global water crisis, climate change & how water fragility shapes our human interactions.

Moving Water is a theatrical call to action. It’s been in development for over 2 years with artistic director, ensemble actors & the collaborating artists: writer, composer, dramaturg & designers. As part of the ongoing development, the piece had a live & virtual premiere this past July in Northampton, MA and played to sold out audiences. (The Northampton premiere was co-produced with the KO Festival of Performance.) This winter, Serious Play has returned to the studio refining & redesigning the piece toward a 2022 New England Tour. Through highly visual staging, with a diverse acting ensemble including some text spoken in Spanish, choreographed movement, onstage rain, large scale video projections augmented with original water glass music, this poetic and visually stunning work will bring audiences to a deeper appreciation for, and understanding of water, and our fragile world.

The story is set in an older apartment building in a US coastal city. Its imaginative, Davinci-like inventor, the building superintendent, is somewhat detached from reality, but nonetheless extremely concerned with the impending threat of storms and rising ocean waters on the building he sees as his home. He befriends an oceanography student from Mexico City and together they search for a missing resident from Pakistan who has disappeared. The son of the building’s owner downplays the constant dripping, the new cracks appearing in the foundation and the increase in larger storms, denying climate change as a possible cause. The characters each have a unique association with water that drives the overall storyline both real and metaphoric concerning rising sea levels, water scarcity and insecurity, and our unique human relationship with water.

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COVID-19 Protocols

As we prepare to welcome you back on-site and into our theaters for our 2022 SubSpace season, we are taking every step to keep our collaborators, speakers, artists, staff, and audiences safe. Measures we have implemented include:

• In accordance with the current City-wide vaccination requirement, you must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter the Museum. Please see our Visitor Code of Conduct for details.

• All audience members must wear a mask whenever inside the Museum and our theater spaces. Reduced seating capacities in all theater spaces to allow for more social distancing

• Increased cleaning frequency of high-touch surfaces and spaces Enhanced operations and maintenance of our heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, including utilizing higher efficiency air filters and increasing the introduction of fresh air through our ventilation systems.

• Implemented a mandatory Museum vaccination policy for all staff and volunteers. Details can be found here: https://www.mos.org/press/press-releases/Museum-of-Science-Vaccine-Employee-Policy

The Museum of Science will continue to monitor and follow CDC, state and city guidelines and communicate changes to the above protocol to ticket holders in advance of each program. All these policies are subject to change and guests who do not comply with the Museum policies will not be admitted into a program nor receive a refund.

Please visit our website for the most up-to date policies and protocols: https://www.mos.org/visit/code-of-conduct

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