After directing two productions in Reykjavik starting in 2007, LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE OU LE SILENCE DE MOLIÈRE (THE IMAGINARY INVALID, OR MOLIÈRE’S SILENCE) (Molière/Macchia) and THE IMAGE(Beckett), Arthur Nauzyciel was invited by the National Theatre of Iceland to stage a production. Because they have in common Iceland, ghosts, family stories, travels at the end of the visible or invisible world, he asked novelist Marie Darrieussecq to write a play for the occasion. She wrote THE SEA MUSEUM. They thought about poet and Björk lyricist Sjon for the translation into Icelandic. Choreographers and dancers Damien Jalet and Erna Omarsdottir, musician Bardi Johannsson (Bang Gang, Lady and Bird), scenographer Giulio Lichtner and lighting designer Scott Zielinski joined the adventure as well.