Call me Ishmael…
In the great American novel by Herman Melville, Moby Dick, the possessed and singularly-focused Captain Ahab leads his crew on a suicidal and revengeful hunt for the white whale that took his leg. Leading his crew from the whaling capital of New Bedford around the globe, in the end, only one sailor is left alive to tell the story of the great white whale.
In 1955, Orsen Wells adapted the classic story and created a play-within-a-play, Moby Dick Rehearsed,retelling the story of an American theatre company at the end of the 1800s, rehearsing a new play, Moby Dick. The cast, unhappy …read more
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