"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. Center 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 enrolls
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 in this
wonderful stage adaptation.