The first thing playwright Samuel D. Hunter wants you to know about "The Whale" is that even though the play's main character is a 600-pound man this is not a play about obesity. "If the play is about one thing, it's empathy," Hunter says. "I suppose the experiment of the play was to put a character on stage that we might initially keep at arm's length, and then slowly he becomes a carriage for our empathy. It's t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:44PM on April 10, 2013