In Partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum

Combining song, story, history and movement as we return to live, site specific performance, What Lies Beneath is an immersive experience aboard the historical Wavertree, built in 1885 and used as a cargo ship before being acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968.

This musical experience invites small groups to travel around the ship’s main deck to hear and see vignettes intended to connect audiences to the complex and tragic stories surrounding American maritime history, both through the enslavement of African people and through novelist Herman Melville’s tragic heroes.