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5 days ago · Adapted by Sebastian Armesto. A fast and vibrant reimagining of Melville’s classic. Featuring sea shanties played live on stage. “There she blows!” October, 1839. The Pequod is due to sail out of Nantucket and her skipper, Captain Ahab, is in need of a crew.
Jun 7, 2024 · Writer: Herman Melville. Adapter: Sebastian Armesto. Director: Jesse Jones. Moby Dick must have seemed an admirable choice for adaptation: the epic sweep of the novel, the ensemble ethos for...
Jun 6, 2024 · This brand-new adaptation from Sebastian Armesto, directed by Royal & Derngate Artistic Director Jesse Jones, follows the hunt for the most famous whale on earth. Merville ’s leviathan masterpiece has been ingeniously brought to life for the stage, complete with sea shanties and musical instruments played live by actor-musicians.
Jun 19, 2024 · Adapter: Sebastian Armesto. Director: Jesse Jones. For a swashbuckling tale of bloodthirsty adventure on the high seas, there is something muted, almost cerebral, about this production. Forget...
Jun 8, 2024 · Vengeance is a powerful force, and Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick provides a dramatic picture of blind obsession, seeing Captain Ahab hunt the whale who devoured his leg. Sebastian Armesto has adapted the lengthy novel for the stage, condensing the tale into under two hours of stage time.
5 days ago · The ‘it’ is Captain Ahab’s peg leg, a legacy of the seaman’s brush with a mighty whale – the Moby Dick of the title – that, in Herman Melville’s classic story, the vengeful Ahab is determined to hunt down and kill. The answer is that the leg is fashioned from one of Guy’s old prosthetics to resemble Captain Ahab’s whalebone ...
May 30, 2024 · Combining theatrical flair and invention, Sebastian Armesto’s adaptation captures the spirit of Herman Melville’s novel – romantic, ambiguous and rich with allegory – for the award-winning Simple 8, specialists in creating worlds out of nothing in bold new plays that tackle big ideas with large casts.
