The Oil Lamp Theater presents their 2021 Season Under the Stars where audiences view live theater at an outdoor venue. The season starts with Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly followed by Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself).
The theater’s promoters describe these two plays as follows--
Talley’s Folly
“Towards the end of World War II and after a year of writing love letters, Matt Friedman, a bookish, totally honest, and delightfully funny accountant and Jewish immigrant, returns to Lebanon, Missouri, to ask Sally to marry him. Sally, a 31-year-old nurse, is nothing like her conservative Protestant family and neighbors who would never approve of their marriage and is reluctant to put her trust in a future with Matt. After years of giving up on love, the two begin to imagine the possibilities of having a life together.”
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
“Based on the true story of the Swiss explorer who claimed to have daring adventures in the Asian-Pacific… watch Louis de Rougemont take London at the turn of the nineteenth century by storm as he tells audacious tales of the high seas. Filled with exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant sea turtles, and a monstrous man-eating octopus, Shipwrecked!…examines how far we’re willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world.”
