S 62° 58’, W 60° 39’

The wreck of a sailboat, a vast icy landscape on the background and a crew of hopeless survivors. S
62° 58’, W 60° 39’ starts with an impossible and frightening situation: to survive. To go back to the
life they knew. It is unclear how they got stuck in this predicament. Their GPS coordinates - S 62°
58’, W 60° 39’ – indicate their precise location in the Arctic water of Deception Island. But before
we get any answers, a performer adresses the director. The story falls apart to reveal something
else, a delicate trauma that has fueled the director’s oeuvre. A trauma the performers do not want
to play anymore.

In Franck Chartier’s newest creation, fragility takes center stage. A search for truth and authentic
emotions takes everyone past their limits. The performers lay bare their emotions and lives, but
also fight against the director’s push to go even deeper. After years of sacrifice, willing or forced,
they start to wonder what would happen if they refused. Fiction and reality are ruptured in an
attempt to escape the vicious cycles of violence. Performers try to stage a revolution, an end to
everything, a new beginning. But that might just be another work of fiction.

In a constant rewinding and repeating process of rehearsing trauma, set against an unrelenting
Arctic landscape, S 62° 58’, W 60° 39’ touches on new discussions about what we want to create
on stage in this day and age. Is this the only way we can process our traumas? What poetry do we
want to leave behind? What message? Or should we actually stop creating for once? Should the
director let go of it all?