Hush now! For I am about to tell you a story.
A fantastic and amazing story!
A story all the more remarkable because every word of it is true. That’s right. Every word.
How do I know?
Because I lived it, dear ones
Thus begins
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself)
. Based on a Victorian hoaxer’s tale of being a castaway in the South Pacific—complete with buried treasure, a giant killer octopus, and cannibals—Margulies revisits themes of authenticity and loss as he returns to what theater does best.
Reviews:
“A deft literate narrative folded into a vaudevillian romp.” –
Los Angeles Times
“Re-creating the pleasures of nineteenth-centure platform entertainment with a tart contemporary twist,
Shipwrecked!
offers a self-promoting fabulist a forum to inform and persuade, and it delights in both respects…The emotional through line transforms a ripping good yarn into a touching character study.” -
Variety
“An intriguing step beyond Margulies’s typically naturalistic work…Margulies’s script is a tribute to the power of storytelling, in particular to the telling of tall tales we are asked to believe despite any wildly unlikely events.” –
Cincinnati City Beat
“This whirlwind escapade of the imagination takes the audience out of what they might expect from theater and into a new, uncharted realm of whimsy and adventure…Quirky and wondrous,
is truly an odyssey of the imagination.” –
Montgomery News
Donald Margulies
received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for
Dinner with Friends
. The play received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world. In addition to his adaptation of
God of Vengeance
, his many plays include
Collected Stories
,
The Country House, Sight Unseen
The Model Apartment
The Loman Family Picnic
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
and
Time Stands Still
. Mr. Margulies currently lives with his wife and their son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.