Oct 16, 2020
New York Premiere Audio Play
Audio Version and Original Stage Play by Anne
Washburn
Directed and Freely Adapted by Saheem
Ali
Original Music Composed and Performed
by The Bengsons
Sound
Designer Palmer Hefferan
Audio Engineering
by UltraViolet Audio; Matt Boynton Owner and Chief
Engineer; Lead Audio Engineer Ania Grzesik
Assistant
Audio Engineer Beth Lake
Producted by The Public Theater in a co-production
with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. This fall, as the election
draws near, tune in to a searing and searching new audio drama from
acclaimed playwright Anne Washburn about
America’s present-day divisions, seen through the eyes of the very
recent past. SHIPWRECK centers on a
group of liberal friends gathered at an upstate farmhouse on a day
of crystalline beauty. While the weather outside grows increasingly
apocalyptic and the conversation within grows precariously honest,
the group discovers that in turbulent times, every dinner
invitation comes at a cost. Slated to be a stage production in
The Public’s 2020 season, SHIPWRECK has
been re-worked specifically for an audience listening from home or
headphones. Saheem Ali directs this
harrowing and hilarious masterpiece about race, religion, family
and the nightmarish fallout of the American experiment.