Meet the Real Ernest Shackleton: A Comedy about Antarctica

The story that makes Survivor look like a picnic. Twenty-eight men stranded for two years in Antarctica. Experience the adventure — and the comedy. The play focuses on Ernest Shackleton’s desire to impress his wife and the resulting heroic miscalculation that led him to sail his ship, the Endurance, into the Antarctic Sea where it became stuck in the ice and eventually sank,
stranding Shackleton and twenty-seven men for two years. Shackleton made history when he accomplished the impossible by bringing all his men home safely after a two-year life-and-death struggle. Meet the Real Ernest Shackleton: A Comedy About Antarctica is the first comedy about his expedition. Written and directed by Michael Christian, the story is a romantic comedy that asks an obvious question, How does it feel to get stuck in Antarctica for two years with twenty-seven men, one of whom you suspect is in love with your wife?