Shipwrecked!

Incredible Adventure Tale

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself)

By Donald Margulies
Directed by Scott LaFeber
Boston Premiere - At sixteen, Louis de Rougemont leaves his sickbed and London home,
vowing to see the world. As he climbs aboard a ship of pearl divers, a typhoon hits, leaving
him stranded on an island. Thirty years later, hailed as a hero, he returns to Victorian
London with a tale so amazing it’s hard to believe it is true. Filled with theatrical magic
and “good old-fashioned yarn spinning,” (The New York Times) audiences young and old
will enjoy this magical story of exotic lands, extraordinary creatures, and incredible
adventures. “Magical theatrical sleight of hand.” –The New York Times

Featuring:
Allyn Burrows* (Louis de Rougemont) returns to The Lyric after appearing in What the Butler Saw and The Liar. Off-Broadway credits include King Lear, Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, and Flattering Word. Regional credits include All My Sons (Actors' Theatre of Louisville); Colossus of Rhodes (American Conservatory Theatre); Twelfth Night (Long Wharf Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Denver Center); The Heiress (Walnut St. Theatre), and Hamlet (Elm Shakespeare Company). Other Boston-area productions include The Seafarer, The Pursuit of Happiness, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Homecoming (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Five by Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage Company); All's Well That Ends Well, King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Richard III (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Henry in Henry V, Oberon in Midsummer Night's Dream, Hal in Henry IV, Part I, and Berowne in Love's Labors Lost (Shakespeare & Company). Television credits include Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Against the Law. Film credits include The Company Men, Julie & Julia, and The Windigo. Mr. Burrows is the Eliot Norton Award recipient for King Lear, Five by Tenn, and The Homecoming.

Angie Jepson* (Player #1) makes her Lyric Stage Company debut. Recent Boston acting credits include Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and title roles in Romeo and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida (Publick Theatre), Ellen in The Little Dog Laughed (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Bianca in Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Aramintha in Howard Zinn's Daughter of Venus (Boston Playwrights' Theatre/Suffolk University), and Lucy in Dracula (Stoneham Theatre). Ms. Jepson is also a fight choreographer and teacher in the Boston area, and is a graduate of the M.F.A. Acting program at Brandeis University.

Daniel Berger-Jones (Player 2) makes his Lyric Stage Company debut. Area credits include Jimmy Porter in Look Back In Anger (Elliot Norton Award), Scar Tissue in Marisol, The Voice in Fight Test (Orfeo Group); The Rivals (Huntington Theatre Company), Goatwoman of Corvis County (Shakespeare & Company), Titus Andronicus (Elliot Norton Award), The Tempest (Actors' Shakespeare Project), Mr. Marmalade (Company One), Cherry Orchard (Nora Theatre Company), and The Wrestling Patient, a co-production by Speakeasy Stage Company , Boston Playwrights Theatre, and Forty Magnolias Productions. Mr. Berger-Jones earned his B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Boston University.