Moby Dick November 18th

                      
                       Moby Dick
                       Gare St. Lazare Players of Dublin, Ireland
                       St. Johnsbury School
                       Friday, November 18th
                       7:00 PM

                       $25, $32                    Regular
                       $24, $30                    Members
                       $12                             Students

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Acclaimed Solo Performance of Melville's New England Classic!

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick remains, 150 years after its publication, a “Great American Novel.” It is a work of immense detail, charismatic characters, obsessive revenge, and a promethean challenge to the gods.  This monumental story conjures the adventure of a wandering sailor, Ishmael, and his voyage on the whale ship, Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one very specific whale: Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale that, in a previous encounter, destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge.  The story is based on the actual events around the whaleship Essex, which was attacked by a sperm whale while at sea and sank.

This riveting tale will be performed by acclaimed Irish actor, Conor Lovett who, with his wife Judy Hegarty Lovett, adapted the novel for this towering one-man performance.  The Lovetts are part of the Dublin-based Gare St. Lazare Players, Ireland’s most traveled theater troupe, with performances in 21 countries.  Lovett is widely viewed as perhaps the world’s leading performer of the work of playwright Samuel Beckett.  In Moby Dick, the Irish Times calls Lovett’s 2-hour tour de force “a distillation of Melville’s genius.”

Recent performances include Shanghai International Theatre Festival, South Bank Centre, London, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, and National Theater of Bulgaria.  Running Time 2 hours (no intermission). 

“This is a style of theatre that exists entirely in the relationship between the audience and the actor, and this is the type of theatre that Conor Lovett – a phenomenal, almost artless, performer – was born for."
                                                                                     -- Irish Theatre Magazine

            "A must-see. Lovett holds us spellbound as he captures the humor as well as the wisdom of Melville" 
                                                                                         -- The Irish Examiner

Lovett's capacity to hold an audience is remarkable. His voice control and subtle shifts of expression and movement seem effortless."
                                                                                         – The Guardian (London)

                         "I felt as if I should be sitting at somebody's fireplace enjoying a storyteller tell me his story."
                                                                         – Kate O'Toole, Irish National Television
 

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