Moby Dick RehearsedAn 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 |
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aboard ACTRESS Ahab's Ahoy BACHELOR blows bone bows breach cabin Cap'n Ahab Cape Horn Captain Ahab CARPENTER chase chorus Christmas churns crew cries CYNICAL ACTOR d'ye DAGGOO deck ELIJAH FATHER MAPPLE FLASK flukes goes GOVERNOR Gunwhales hands harmonium HAROLD AND MAUDE harpoon heard heart ISHMAEL ivory Jane Martin JIMMY DEAN Jonah keel lance leeward little Pip Look Lord louder MASTHEAD mate mebbe Mister Peleg Moby Dick monium Murmurs MUSIC Nantucket night oars oceans old Ahab parmacetty pause Pequod PIP'S VOICE play prompt-book pull Queequeg queer RACHEL rehearsal sail SAILORS Scene seen SERIOUS ACTOR shark ship's Shipmates shout silence Singing soul speak spout STAGE MANAGER stand STARBUCK strike STUBB tambourine Tash TASHTEGO Theatre thee there's thou turns whale-boat whaling ship What's whisper white whale WIND Ye've YOUNG ACTOR YOUNG ACTRESS АНАВ