Performers:
Aitor Basauri
Petra Massey
Toby Park
Stephan Kreiss
Directed by:
Jos Houben
Scenography:
Graeme Gilmour
Costumes, props:
Lucy Bradridge
Light design:
Phil Supple
Music:Toby Park
Photos:
Corné van der Stelt
Robert Day
Reviews:
The Herald
The British Theatre Guide
The Evening News
Supported by:
Arts Council England,
Brighton & Hove City Council
Spymonkey, Great Britain
Spymonkey's Moby Dick
A glorious mistelling of the Herman Melville novel!
Four whalers find themselves trapped in the belly of a literary monster. As they ponder the irony of their fate they recount a story of Moby Dick, sparkling with their own fantastical flourishes.
The novel's epic examination of good, evil, fate and obsession is lost on them. And then, mysteriously, found on them again.
Will Ahab's thirst for revenge be unhinged by the well-meaning but staggeringly inept attentions of his crew?
Now that he has found true love, is Ishmael still fated to be the sole survivor of the Pequod?
Can a mermaid figurehead get pregnant?
And what does a cannibal harpoonist from Bavaria eat?
"Must be the funniest show on any stage in Britain at the moment."
Sid Langley / Birmingham Post 22.9.2009
"Gloriously anarchic, constantly entertaining. Inspired comic misrule.
Moby Dick will give you a whale of a time."
Dominic Maxwell / the Times 23.9.2009