Moby Dick Rehearsed

With these words, a young sailor begins the story of his voyage with Captain Ahab, a man possessed by the single-minded desire to kill creature that took off his leg - the great white whale, Moby Dick.

Adapted by America's most celebrated stage and screen director, Moby Dick Rehearsed sets one of America's greatest novels in an empty Victorian theatre, where a tyrannical actor-manager leads his crew in their evocation of Nantucket Docks, the great whale ship, and the ocean itself.

"With Moby Dick, the theatre becomes once more a house of magic." Kenneth Tynan on the original production.

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