In case you missed it or want to revisit, we had a wonderful talkback moderated by our own Miles Boinest, with playwright Brad Erickson and historian and author Harlan Greene.
The production runs for two more weeks so tell your friends and get your tickets below!
THE OCEAN WE SWIM IN
BY BRAD ERICKSONAPRIL 16–MAY 9, 2026WORLD PREMIEREDIRECTED BY SHARON GRACI
In the haunting quiet of the South Carolina Lowcountry, a canceled art critic seeks refuge. But exile to the South Carolina marshes quickly offers one last chance at relevance—if he’s willing to take down a nearly 100-year-old local art legend to do it. In The Ocean We Swim In, reputations become weapons, secrets have teeth, and the line between confession and manipulation vanishes in the tide.
When a canceled California art critic flees with his husband to the marshy refuge of South Carolina, he’s offered an unexpected shot at redemption: expose a beloved local legend for racism and cultural appropriation on the eve of his 100th birthday.
As the investigation deepens, a far more complicated truth begins to surface, rooted in secrecy, a hidden past, and a haunting, unreleased body of work. Drawn into this shadowed world, the critic is forced to confront his own complicity, his ambition, and the cost of reclaiming his voice, before making a choice that could redefine his life and his marriage.
Set between present-day Lowcountry and post-World War II Pawleys Island, The Ocean We Swim In unfolds as a moving mystery, lyrical and shifting, alive with the weight of what is remembered and what is withheld.
