A Wash Away على بعد موجة بحر

Overview

A Wash Away is a theatre production staged during 2004–2005, centred on a man who survives a shipwreck in which everyone else aboard is lost.

He survives the disaster but loses his memory, leaving him unable to recover his former life or even the identity he possessed before the accident. He eventually lives in a village for an extended period under a new identity, as though an entirely different life has begun in place of the one he can no longer remember.

The shipwreck is the starting point of the drama rather than its only subject. At its core, the work explores memory, identity, loss, survival and the possibility of rebuilding a life when one's connection to the past has disappeared.

The original music was created around this psychological and theatrical landscape — the sea, the trauma of loss, the absence of memory and the gradual formation of a new existence. Rather than treating the maritime disaster merely as spectacle, the score functions as part of the character's internal world and the distance between a lost past and an adopted present.