Brizo
Brizo is the protector of sailors, mariners, and fishermen. She watches over her boys (and girls) in navy uniforms, listens to their yarns and sea songs, and provides nighttime GPS in dreams. She is worshipped by sailors’ wives and women sailors. She loves offerings of food set on little boats but never fish. She lives in the dreams of sailors and those who love them – or maybe they live in hers.
In Carson Beker’s play, Brizo, protector of sailors, takes us on a tour of sailors and sailor culture, through sea shanties and sailors tattoos, through sailors’ dreams and sailors’ hopes, through rum, pirates, salty dogs, and most of all, through sailors’ yarns.
Sing Along to the dirtiest shanties; find out all the things they can do with a drunken sailor!
Laugh About the cabin boy who fell in love with an octopus!
Cry for the sailor who gave up his life for a mermaid!
Discover what water tastes like to a drowning man!
Remember that even a goddess can’t save every sailor from drowning. Can Brizo forget the ones she could not save, or will their voices finally drown her?
BRIZO by Carson Beker
Directed by Stuart Bousel
Staged Reading on November 5, 2015
Carson Beker almost drowned in the Atlantic Ocean when she was 8 and has dreamt of Davy Jones’ Locker ever since. She is co-captain of Wayward Writers and has skippered creative writing classes at San Francisco State University. Her yarns have appeared in Gigantic Sequins, Transfer, and Bourbon Penn. Her play Sunflower Suicide Moon, a second-place Highsmith Award nominee, is sailing with the 2015 Greenhouse Festival. She’s a lubber of land and a sea dog at heart.