A new play adapted from Herman Melville’s novel

From the company that created The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Nominated for a Peter Brook Empty Space/Equity Ensemble Award

Nantucket.1851. Centre 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 enrols 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.

"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."

The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville's masterpiece – romantic, ambiguous, characterful and rich with allegory – is captured on stage by simple8, following their critically acclaimed and sell-out run of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

"A company possessing the skills, dedication and intelligence to create wonder" ★★★★★ The Times

All music and sound is performed live by the ensemble.

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