Any adaptive treatment of Moby-Dick has a beast to contend with equal to the novel's monstrous namesake. The chapter-length ruminations, the Homeric cataloguing of whales and whale-parts, and the breathless descriptions of a whaling vessel's hull are more than informative filler from which a plot can be safely excised; they make up a cosmos where human ingenuity is dwarfed by a vast and unknowable natural world. A li…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM on February 12, 2012