Kenneth Jones Playbill On-Line Mon Aug 18, 4:58 PM ET The production, bursting with movement and music, continues in repertory with other works to Oct. 18. The Ontario festival commissioned the play, representing a commitment by the classical troupe to nurture contemporary works. The Melville classic "is retold through music and movement" by the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed The Overcoat. The music of Debussy is used to evoke the life of the seafarer. Moby Dick features David Ferry as Captain Ahab and Shaun Smyth as Ishmael. According to Stratford notes, "Having signed on as a harpooner aboard the Pequod, a whaling ship commanded by the mysterious Captain Ahab, the former schoolteacher Ishmael gets more than he bargained for when Ahab, obsessed by the great white whale that took his leg, turns the voyage into a...
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