Moby Dick - Rehearsed - Paperback

by Orson Welles (Author), Herman Melville (Based on a Book by), Orson Welles (Adapted by)

Genre: Melodrama Characters: 12m, 2f

An 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 tribulat