The near-mythic dimensions of the Shackleton expedition story have prompted a spate of retellings. But for sheer power to haunt the imagination, to capture the sense of isolation felt by that small band of men when they were trapped on the bottom of the world with no guarantee they would make it out alive, it’s hard to picture anything surpassing Phantom Limb’s “69˚ S. (The Shackleton Project),’’ at ArtsEmerson.
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While I fount the production visual and aurally stunning, the plot got lost in the translation somewhere. It is tough when a piece relays on program notes and a pre-show comment to tell the story. While it was wonderful to watch, I was clueless to where the story was and where it was going. There was no real arc to the story that was obvious. The program describes 9 tableaux, but with one or two exceptions (the red people), where those began and ended wes not at all clear. The production could benefit from some sort of sur-title incorporated in the stunning video projections that defines those 'movements' with in the piece.