Moby Dick - Rehearsed

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It's not surprising that in the 1950s, Orson Welles decided to adapt Herman Melville's Moby-Dick for the stage, in something called Moby Dick - Rehearsed. In his own career, Welles had long since embarked on a voyage that might be considered the artistic equivalent of Moby-Dick protagonist Captain Ahab's vindictively obsessive pursuit of the white whale that had chewed off one of his legs. You could say that the masterpiece Welles sought to snag in unfinished project after unfinished project eventually did him in, just as Ahab eventually loses his monumental man-versus-sea beast battle.

Half a century later, Moby-Dick continues to remain a teasing challenge that stage lubbers who set sai[...]