Joe Forbrich's The Whaleship Essex ably straddles genres. It is at once a first-rate adventure story, a survivalist thriller and a meditation on depravity spawned by abject terror and the absence of hope. From the weathered, fog-shrouded docks of Nantucket to the mast-tall swells roiling thousands of miles from shore, The Whaleship Essex is so richly atmospheric you'd swear you could smell the salt air and feel the h…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:47PM on September 17, 2014