Review: The Whaleship Essex/Shattered Globe Theatre
Which graduate of our public school system hasn't read the CliffsNotes for Melville's "Moby Dick," along with Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" and "Beowulf?" With "The Whaleship Essex," sailor/playwright Joe Forbrich makes his case for theatricalization of the story that inspired Melville's epic tale of man-against-whale, with its page-after-page descriptions of waves and eschewing of substantial […]