Moby Dick Rehearsed

Download or read book Moby Dick Rehearsed written by Orson Welles and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1965 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ingenious idea is employed to accommodate the sweep of this classic story on the stage. 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. "Admirably bold and imaginative."--The New York Post "An adventure in theatre going. As I left the first performance I felt myself rather oddly shaky and breathless ... There is nothing else anywhere near like Moby Dick in the theatre." - The New York Daily News