DESERT ISLAND - A PLAY - 2014

This work lingers in its various phases of production: pre-production (the script), production (the set) and post-production (the sound).

The script is a composite of both fictional and factual desert island narratives, collaging existing texts and documents into a 6-act play featuring a single castaway. The play is founded on the recurrent elements of these borrowed narratives.

The audio is appropriated from the film Castaway (2000), excluding dialogue and only using the sounds of subtle human interaction with the desert island environment.

The Play includes text and story plots borrowed 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, ,

And narrative elements from the lives and 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

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