Moby
Dick seen
as part of the Bank of Scotland Children's
International Theatre Festival UK
Premiere
Adapted by the copy from Herman Melville's book.
Company - Theater Triebwerk from Germany
Venue - Theatre Workshop, 34 Hamilton Pl, Stockbridge,
Edinburgh
Dates - Public performances 2 June at 7pm then toured
in Scotland
Tickets - From Traverse Box office 228 1404 or Theatre Workshop
Running time - 70mins approx in English for 10yrs+
Reviewer - Thelma Good
"Ever sat on a coffin in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?"
asks the sailor on the stage. And the audience is at once hooked by
that question. Theater Triebwerk gives a very visual and dramatic story
telling of Moby Dick worth catching during its Scottish tour. The three
actors, their instruments, a cello and double bass, providing a musical
score take us with them into this wonderful yarn.
On board the whalebone garlanded whaler, is Ishmael the new sailor,
and Starbuck and Queequeg the exotic South Sea Islander who harpoons
the leviathans.
At night Captain Ahab walks the deck with his wooden leg obsessed in
his desire to get the huge white whale Moby Dick. Throughout, as in
the ordinal novel, the extraordinary facts about whales and the men
who chased them, surface and blow us back to when the sailors live for
3 years at time at sea, pursuing and stripping their whale quarries.
Atmospheric and gripping this company have in this production adapted
Maybe Dick so that at the end when the question, "Ever sat ...."
is asked again, don't be surprised if you find yourself saying "Yes!"
©Thelma
Good, 29th May 2001
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