Atlanta's Saiah seeks to transform the Great American Novel into the Great American Play
Can the Great American Novel become a great American play? When the novel is Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , the answer would seemingly be a resounding, "No." All novels resist adaptation to some degree, but Moby-Dick seems almost designed to be difficult to bring to the stage: Most of the action takes place at sea, there are lengthy non-narrative digressions about the minutiae of whale-hunting, and one of the primary …