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THE VAST MACHINE
Friday, October 16, 2015 at 8:00PM

Axis Theatre
One Sheridan Square
New York, NY 10014
Off West 4th Street (btwn. 6th & 7th Aves.)
A, B, C, D, E, F, M West 4th Street; 1 train Christopher St.


Following an unsuccessful slave insurrection in 1823 the crew of The Perisher is almost completely decimated by illness, alcohol and accident, and is quickly running out of food and water. The remaining five members must decide what to do with the 123 living people beneath the deck. They spy a tiny speck on the horizon line. Is it an Interceptor, one of the ships patrolling the Middle Passage, arresting and sometimes disposing of slave ship crews before returning the captives to the African continent? Is it a fellow slaver who may tow them to safety? Or a whaling ship that could spare oars and a long boat?