Moby Dick--rehearsed

Synopsis

A drama in two acts

Genre: Melodrama Characters: 12m, 2f 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 tribulat

Themes

• Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
• Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Drama
• Melville, Herman , 1819-1891
• Mentally ill
• Mentally ill--Drama
• PS3545.E522 M6
• Ship captains
• Ship captains--Drama
• Whales
• Whales--Drama
• Whaling
• Whaling--Drama
• Whaling ships--Drama
• Whaling ships