Raft of the Medusa – starring Oliver’s Regis Palmer – He’s been in a of couple Soundstage productions.

All totaled, we have 11 cast members from the South Okanagan as well as 4 crew members including Mary Fry (pictured in an aircraft hangar at the Oliver Airport painting sets)

This is truly an Okanagan wide production!

An epic tale of love, morality and obsession where survival is the ultimate consequence.

Raft of the Medusa is a new rock musical based on a true account of one of the worst shipwrecks of the nineteenth century. Through the incompetence of her captain, the magnificent French sailing ship Medusa ran aground off the west coast of Africa. Sadly 150 unfortunate souls were set adrift on a makeshift raft. Condemned, as it would turn out, to unthinkable depravity and suffering.

Two years later an aspiring and eccentric French painter, Theodore Gericault, read a factual account of this tragedy. Gericault was so moved by the plight that befell those on the raft that he embarked on his masterpiece: “Le Radeau De La Meduse” – The Raft of the Medusa. Before long his fascination turned to obsession spiralling the young artist into darkness. It is through Gericault’s eyes that we discover this harrowing tale. His pain paralleling that of the castaways on the raft that he was compelled to know.

July 24, 25, 31 and August 1, 2015
Kelowna Community Theatre
All shows 7:30 pm