Doug is about to start rehearsals for his most intensive role to date, playing Louis de Rougemont, in ArtsWest’s production of “Shipwrecked: An Entertainment”. Below is a press release from the theater. Ticket information is available below.
AHOY!
ARTSWEST PLAYHOUSE & GALLERY PRESENTS
THE SEATTLE PREMIERE OF
SHIPWRECKED!
AN ENTERTAINMENT
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT
(AS TOLD BY HIMSELF)
BY DONALD MARGULIES
PRODUCTION RUN: APRIL 27TH – MAY 21ST, 2011
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, 7:30 PM; SUNDAY, 3:00 PM
STUDENT MATINEE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 11TH, 10:00AM
PRESS NIGHT: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27TH, 7:30PM
SEATTLE, WA (March 11, 2011) – ArtsWest Playhouse & Gallery is proud to announce the Seattle Premiere of Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, Collected Stories), directed by ArtsWest’s Theater and Education Director Christopher Zinovitch (The History Boys, Evil Dead: The Musical). Shipwrecked! opens on Wednesday, April 27th and runs through Saturday, May 21, 2011 at ArtsWest (4711 California Ave SW, Seattle 98116).
Shipwrecked! is based on the tales of Louis de Rougemont, a hoaxer who spellbound 19th-century readers with his adventures as a castaway in the South Pacific—until it was revealed that his accounts of buried treasure, a giant killer octopus and cannibals were likely, in fact, fictional. In the book’s afterword, Margulies wrote that with Shipwrecked! he wanted to create “a play that would make no attempt to replicate onstage what television and movies do but would instead celebrate the uniqueness of theater.”
With his “exuberantly theatrical” (Time Out New York) piece, Margulies strips away the trappings of spectacle—using minimal scenery, three players and the simple sound effects they create—to, as Margulies said, “get back to what theater does best: enlighten, amuse, transport, make you forget, or force you to remember.”
“Good old fashioned yarn spinning… The breathless story of a Victorian gentleman whose colorful past springs to life like a theatrical pop-up book.” —New York Times
Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends, which has been produced across the U.S. and around the world. His other plays include Sight Unseen (Obie Award for Best New American Play); Brooklyn Boy; Collected Stories; God of Vengeance, based on the Yiddish classic; among many others. Born in Brooklyn, he lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and his son, to whom the play is dedicated.
Doug Fahl (South Pacific- Village Theatre; The Great Gatsby-Seattle Repertory Theatre; Zombies of Mass Destruction-Lionsgate Films) leads the ensemble cast as Louis de Rougemont in ArtsWest’s production of Shipwrecked! Also featured are Beth A. Cooper (Black Gold, Measure for Pleasure), Nick Edwards (The History Boys), and Emily Rose Frasca (Evil Dead: The Musical, 2010 BWW Award for Best Actress in a Musical).
Christopher Zinovitch (Winner, 2010 Broadway World Awards, Best Direction of a Musical) will direct Shipwrecked! alongside his design team: Dan Schuy (set and props), Rob Witmer (sound), Margo Walker (costumes), and Josh Randall (lights). Zinovitch piloted the hugely successful Evil Dead: The Musical last fall and the currently-running production of Distracted, now playing at ArtsWest through April 2nd.
Winner of Broadway World’s Best Theater of the Year (2010), ArtsWest is one of Seattle’s leading not-for-profit contemporary theater companies. The 149-seat theater and visual arts gallery took home another sixteen Broadway World Awards for 2010 including Best Musical, Best Costume Design, and Best Choreography. Shipwrecked! is the final production of ArtsWest’s 2010-11 season. Season tickets for ArtsWest’s new 2011-2012 are on sale starting March 14, 2011. For more information or to buy tickets go to www.artswest.org.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets are available by phone at (206) 938-0339, online at www.artswest.org or in person at ArtsWest: located in West Seattle at 4711 California Avenue SW Seattle, 98116.
Ticket prices range from $10.00-$32.00.
Under 25? Only $10!
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
April 27 – May21, 2011
Performances are Wednesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.
*Student Matinee: Wednesday, May 11 at 10AM.
