Moby Dick

A vibrant reimagining of Melville’s classic featuring sea shanties played live on stage.
‘’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.’
October,1839. The Pequod is due to sail out of Nantucket and her skipper, one Captain Ahab, is in need of a crew.
Seeking fortune and adventure, a humble schoolmaster named Ishmael steps aboard, joining a company charged with one task – to wreak revenge on the infamous Moby-Dick, the white whale that lost Ahab his leg. Ahab’s single-minded pursuit ends up consuming Ishmael, the crew and the Pequod itself.
The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville’s masterpiece – romantic, ambiguous, and rich with allegory – is gloriously captured on stage by the award-winning ensemble Simple8. Using some planks of wood, tattered sheets and an old accordion, the hunt for the most famous whale on earth is ingeniously brought to life.