What starts off as an elegant beachside dinner party immediately launches into a wild and unexpected ride. Dialogue ricochets like beach balls among these characters with varying degrees of absurdity. “The island has changed me,” says one character in the ultimate understatement. “I’m more blunt now”—as though bluntness is the issue at hand for these couples washed ashore on a deserted island. Funny and inventive.

With a nod to Luis Bunuel's "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" and Edward Albee's "American Dream", James Kelsey Nelson, in "Shipwrecked Supper", makes use of caustic, absurdist humor and fantasy to great effect. Not a word or note is wasted. And nothing in the play is so obtuse as to become boring. All that's missing is a live performance!

How this group survived a shipwreck that took everyone else eludes me, but I don't care about that. What matters is that it's hilarious! Shipwrecked Supper is a clever farce that is packed with witty banter and silly situations. James Kelsey Nelson's cantankerous cast shows us the best part of being in your golden years: no matter what, you always get to eat your dessert.