Moby Dick (Jory)
Jon Jory
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville, Sebastian Armesto, Simple8 (Theatre Company)
Synopsis
It's true.
It's all true for Moby-Dick.
He's a killer, he's a fury, he's an angel of hell.
Why if the white whale could talk he'd talk like Ahab.'
Nantucket. 1851.
Centre of a whaling industry that transformed blubber into the oils and candles that lit the world.
It's there that a schoolmaster called Ishmael arrives to ship on a whale-boat.
He enrols under Ahab, Captain of the Pequod – a man bent on destroying the white whale that lost him his leg.
Certain the destruction of his nemesis will slake his thirst; Ahab's single-minded pursuit of Moby-Dick consumes Ishmael, the crew and the Pequod itself.
The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville's masterpiece – romantic, ambiguous, characterful and rich with allegory – is captured.
Publication
Publisher Oberon
Year 2013
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 96
Language English
ISBN-13 9781849435109
ISBN-10 1849435103
eISBN-13 9781849433990
Moby Dick is a American adaptation play written by Herman Melville and published by Oberon (2013).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781849433990).
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