In six short weeks, The MS Phoenix Rising will set sail, marking the relaunch of the cruise ship industry after a prolonged shutdown. Urgent, budget-driven planning makes for a tense front office at Dane Cruising while they race to secure their place in history with fast marketing ideas and a reckless social campaign. Whose idea was it to hype the “Christopher Columbus Route” through the Bahamas? Whatever.

Tickets sell fast and ship renovations are ordered even faster to double, triple the capacity. The staff is riding high when the social campaign goes viral – and all the while, no one can sit through an entire meeting or answer an email in a timely manner.

Struck by the promise of fame, luxury, and sipping cocktails at sunset listening to the tinkle of a steel drum band has clouded the frontal lobe of anyone tasked in decision making or, god-forbid, execution of an idea. So, tuck in as the team finds themselves in unchartered waters where perhaps their greatest mistake of all was the decision to revolutionize the concept of on-board entertainment by premiering an Avant Garde theatre production of existential playwright Ionesco’s The Chairs.