Shipwrecked!
by Donald Margulies

Name: Shipwrecked!
Brand: Donald Margulies
SKU: 9780822223412
Rating: 3.83 (69 reviews)

Off-Broadway

Shipwrecked! Book Cover — Shipwrecked! Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 mins Victorian (British and American) Expandable Casting Multicultural Casting Bare Stage/Simple Set Period Costumes American Comedy

Synopsis

Book by Donald Margulies

Press Reviews

"The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies scampers to the defense of good old-fashioned yarn spinning with Shipwrecked! The breathless story of a Victorian gentleman [and] seafaring wanderer springs to life like a theatrical pop-up book. The audience is left to judge whether he is an inspirational figure touched by imaginative genius or a mere con man. We can also consider the possibility that the hero of this true story based on an untrue story is a little of each."
— The New York Times

"Recreating the pleasures of 19th-century platform entertainment with a tart contemporary twist, Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! offers a self-promoting fabulist a forum to inform and persuade, and it delights in both respects."
— Variety

"Margulies gives a sympathetic nod to the audacious autobiographer’s creative overreach in Shipwrecked!, a deft literate narrative folded into a vaudevillian romp with radio theater overtones. Colorful [and] compassionate speculations on the real-life deficiencies and pain that may have been at the root of Louis' need for self-aggrandizement."
— Los Angeles Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT	—	—	—
PLAYER #1 (female) contributes sound effects and portrays or gives voice to:	female	—	(female) contributes sound effects and portrays or gives voice to:
LOUIS’ MOTHER	—	—	—
CAPTAIN JENSEN	male	—	—
YAMBA , an aborigine princess, later HIS WIFE	female	—	, an aborigine princess, later HIS WIFE
FITZGERALD , a magazine editor	—	—	, a magazine editor
A SOCIETY LADY	—	—	—
ALBERT’S MOTHER	—	—	—
AN OCTOPUS EXPERT	—	—	—
A MAP MAKER	—	—	—
A REPORTER	—	—	—
A LIBRARIAN	—	—	—
PLAYER #2 (male) contributes sound effects and portrays or gives voice to:	male	—	(male) contributes sound effects and portrays or gives voice to:
A BARKEEP	—	—	—
BRUNO , a dog	—	—	, a dog
GUNDA , Yamba’s father, a tribal chief	male	—	, Yamba’s father, a tribal chief
BOBO , her brother	female	—	, her brother
AN AUSTRALIAN PROSPECTOR	—	—	—
A SOCIETY LADY	—	—	—
ALBERT , a boy	male	—	, a boy
QUEEN VICTORIA , a queen	female	—	, a queen
A TURTLE EXPERT	—	—	—
A WOMBAT EXPERT	—	—	—
DR. LEOPOLD , an alienist	male	—	, an alienist
A PICKPOCKET	—	—	—