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Orson Welles, famous for his movie Citizen Kane and infamous for creating a nationwide panic with his adaptation of War of the Worlds, turned his hand to another adaptation in 1955: Moby Dick. Welles strips Melville’s sprawling masterpiece to its bones, turning it into a play within a play. In the afternoon before an evening performance of King Lear, a Shakespearean theatre company delves into the text of Moby Dick. Brave New World Repertory stages this highly physical ensemble piece at the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, constructing Melville’s world on the bare stage of the barge. The cast will repurpose the museum’s nautical artifacts to transform the Lehigh Valley Barge # 79 into the docks of Nantucket, the deck of Captain Ahab’s ship, and the wild and wasteful ocean.
 
 
 
 
 
 

STREET SCENE by Elmer Rice