Swept Away

• Berkeley Repertory Theatre Production (2022)
  Berkeley, CA

Based on the 2004 concept album Mignonette by The Avett Brothers, which was loosely inspired by the true events surrounding the 1884 shipwreck of the yacht of the same name near the Cape of Good Hope.

1888, off the coast of New Bedford, MA. When a violent storm sinks their whaling ship, the four surviving souls—a young man in search of adventure, his older brother who has sworn to protect him, a captain at the end of a long career at sea, and a worldly first mate who has fallen from grace—each face a reckoning: How far will I go to stay alive? And can I live with the consequences?