“Moby Dick Rehearsed” by Orson Welles in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herman Melville, author of “Moby Dick.”
A Shakespearean company puts down their rehearsal sides of Lear and curiously take up those of a new play entitled Moby Dick. On the rehearsal stage of platforms, the teasers overhead suddenly become yardarms with sails and a tall ladder becomes a mast. The platforms become the decks of the ship on which the cast sails through the storms and tribulations of the Pequod hunting for Moby Dick. The original production of Moby Dick—Rehearsed, directed by the author, Orson Welles, ran June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London.
TAGS: | Performance |
