About This Show

On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six-hundred pound recluse (Shuler Hensley) hides away in his apartment eating himself to death. Desperate to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter (Reyna de Courcy), he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued and wildly unhappy teen. Big-hearted and fiercely funny, The Whale tells the story of a man’s last chance at redemption, and of finding beauty in the most unexpected places.

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: October 12, 2012 Final Performance: December 15, 2012

Theatermania Review

| | November 5, 2012
Shuler Hensley gives an astonishingly brave performance as 600-pound-man willingly facing death in Samuel D. Hunter’s often remarkable new play at Playwrights Horizons.

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