DESERT ISLAND 

A research in the desert island archetype

This work lingers in its various phases of pre and post production: the script, the stage, and the score. With this , it invites the viewer to engage in an exploration of the desert island archetype through play and meditation. The script is a composite of both fictional and factual desert island narratives, collaging existing texts and documents into a 6-act play featuring an isolated castaway. The play is founded on the recurrent elements of these borrowed narratives. It is supported by the open stage and accompanying desert island soundscape, made by removing all verbal dialogue from audio track of the film Castaway (2000).

The Play includes text and story plots from the following desert island narratives: 

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Godfrey Morgan,: A California Mystery by Jules Verne

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Suzanne and the Pacific by Jean Giraudoux

Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Cast Away (2000) Screenplay by William Broyles

"The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle" by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle

And narrative elements from the real life adventures of :

Alexander Selkirk

Tom Neale

Pedro Serrano

 Leendert Hasenbosch

Philip Ashton

Fernão Lopes

Charle H. Barnard

Chunosuke Matsuyama

Marguerite De La Rocque 

Juana Maria

David Glasheen

Gerald Kingsland & Lucy Irvine

Jose Salvador Alvarenga