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The setting was a mid-19th Century American repertory theatre. The play began subtley as the audience arrived with the cast milling around an empty stage. The cast members generally fooled around and complained about their boss and their forthcoming production of King Lear. Then, making a big dramatic entrance and smoking a cigar, Orson Welles, as the actor manager of the time, came onstage and told them they were going to perform another piece, Moby Dick. The cast grudgingly performed the play, improvising scenery from items lying around. They gradually got more into character as the play developed. |
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