‘Swept Away,’ a shipwreck tale told to music by the Avett Brothers, is finally opening at Berkeley Rep.
It’s been a long voyage for “Swept Away.”
It’s a return to Berkeley Rep for director Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of “Spring Awakening,” who premiered the Green Day musical “American Idiot” at Berkeley Rep in 2009 before taking it to Broadway.“Actually, John Gallagher Jr. introduced me to them when we were doing ‘American Idiot,’” he said. Gallagher, who worked with Mayer in “Spring Awakening” and “American Idiot,” costars in “Swept Away” as well.
“I got an email out of the blue from a producer named Matthew Masten saying, ‘Hey, we’ve never met, but do you know the Avett Brothers’ music? Is there a show in their album “Mignonette”?’” says Logan. “So I did the thing your agent tells you never to do. I said, ‘Yes! I’m in. I love it.’ I had one question. Could we open up their whole song catalog? Because ‘Mignonette,’ although it’s a brilliant concept album, wasn’t really enough to build an entire evening of theater on.
“It’s almost like a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story, a ghost story told in flashback about a shipwreck in 1888,” says Mayer. “It’s basically four characters in a lifeboat, in a little whaling boat. It’s a show about what human beings will do to survive. How far would you go to survive, and how do you keep hope alive?”
It’s a short musical — 90 minutes, no intermission — centering around just four characters in the most intimate and desperate circumstances.
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