The Jungle and the Sea
From the visionary team behind the multi-award-winning Counting and Cracking – S. Shakthidharan and long-time collaborator Eamon Flack – comes ‘another achievement of sustained feeling and empathy’ (The Guardian).
When an unexpected act of destruction splits her family apart, Gowrie takes a radical vow of defiance: she blindfolds herself, refusing to see the world again until her loved ones are reunited. This sets the stage for one family’s epic journey to retain their dignity and safety, as they live through Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war.
Built out of real-life testimonies from the war and woven through with elements of seminal Indian text the Mahābhāratha and the Greek myth of Antigone, The Jungle and the Sea is a theatrical epic of resilience and the pursuit of justice through love.
Enjoy piano bar cocktail hour before the show, with live music and a free drink, from 6.30pm.
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Location 
The Sumner
Southbank Theatre
140 Southbank Blvd
3006
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