[NEohioPAL] "Shipwrecked! an Entertainment" opens at Coach House Theatre

[Nancy Cates]

COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

coachhousetheatre.com

 

All aboard: Coach House opens the season with 'Shipwrecked!'

September 29-October 16, 2011

$12 Preview Performance, Thursday, September 29 only

 

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies' 2007 play Shipwrecked!
an Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by
himself) sails on stage to Akron's Coach House Theatre September 29-October
16. 

 

Shipwrecked!, Coach House's 84th season opener, tells a Victorian gentleman
and seafaring wanderer's amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity.
Are Louis deRougemont's wild tales of sea serpents, native princesses, and
pirates all real, or just in his vivid imagination? Shipwrecked! is Louis'
story of the high seas, populated by exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant
sea turtles and a monstrous man-eating octopus. Louis' fantastical tales are
supported by two Players who play 10 and 15 roles, respectively, and two
Ensemble members who wrangle costumes, props, puppets, and radio-theatre
style sound effects.

 

Shipwrecked! will be presented September 29-October 16. Curtain times are
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
Dinner or Brunch is available to all theatre patrons prior to every
performance at the Akron Woman's City Club next door. There will be a
special $12 preview performance Thursday, September 29 only, at 8 p.m. 

 

Tickets are $18, and $15 for students. The box office opens one hour before
the show. Coach House Theatre is located at 732 W. Exchange Street, in
Akron, next to the Akron Woman's City Club, and at the corner of W. Exchange
and N. Portage Path. Tickets may be reserved online at
<http://www.coachhousetheatre.com> www.coachhousetheatre.com, or by calling
our box office at 330-434-7741.

 

 

The Cast

Louis de Rougemont--- Terry Burgler

Player 1--- Tess Burgler

Player 2--- Joe Pine

Ensemble --- Allison Good

Ensemble --- Daniel Rylander

       

The Director

Terry Burgler, one of Coach House's two Artistic Directors, has worked as an
actor, director and producer nationally and internationally, performing at
the Globe Theatre in London, and winning accolades for his work as Artistic
Director at Porthouse Theatre and Ohio Shakespeare Festival. He was named
Outstanding Theatre Artist in 2007 by Arts Alive! for his theatrical
achievements, and he has won many awards as an actor and director. He is
also one of the two Artistic Directors of Ohio Shakespeare Festival, which
performs each summer at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, as well as periodically
at Coach House and the Players Guild of Canton. For Coach House, Terry has
directed our hit productions of You Can't Take It With You, Witness for the
Prosecution, Light up the Sky and Royal Coach Award winners for Best
Production Not Now, Darling! (2008-09) and Lettice and Lovage (2010-11). He
also has appeared on stage in Deathtrap and Sleuth. 

 

The Playwright

Donald Margulies is the author is many acclaimed contemporary plays,
including Dinner With Friends, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in
2000. In addition to Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures
of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself), his other works include Brooklyn
Boy, Sight Unseen and Collected Stories. Sight Unseen and Collected Stories
were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1992 and 1997,
respectively. Coach House produced Collected Stories in 2003. 

 

And don't miss the rest of Coach House's fantastic 2011-12 season: 

 

The Philadelphia Story by Phillip Barry, November 25-December 18

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, January 26-February 19

A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, March 22-April 8

Move Over, Mrs. Markham by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, May 10-June 3

 

Season tickets for Coach House's 2011-2012 season are currently on sale. See
the whole season at a significantly reduced price, and be assured of the
seats you prefer!

Group rates are available again this season, for groups of 15 or more.
Contact our box office at (330) 434-7741 for details!

Visit us at  <http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/> www.coachhousetheatre.com

 

 

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