Moby Dick - Rehearsed

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Event Moby Dick - Rehearsed
Venue Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
Umbrella Event Top 5 Plays of the U.T.R.C. (1953 - 1967)
First Date 15 August 1967
Opening Date 15 August 1967
Last Date 9 September 1967
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Based on Herman Melville's novel. An experimental adaptation by Orson Welles. The setting is a mid-19th Century American repertory theater. The play begins subtly as the audience arrives with the cast milling around an empty stage. The cast members generally fool around and complain about their boss and their forthcoming production of King Lear. Then, making a big dramatic entrance and smoking a cigar, the actor manager of the time comes on stage and tells them they are going to rehearse another piece, Moby Dick.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Adaptation
Subjects Actors
Fish
Seamen
Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Helmut Bakaitis Actor
Graeme Blundell Actor
Jennifer Claire Actor
Elaine Cusick Actor
Gary Down Actor
Michael Duffield Actor
Arthur Hynes Actor
Dennis Olsen Actor
John Paton Actor
Malcolm Robertson Actor
Lyndel Rowe Actor
Geof Rumney Actor
Frank Thring Actor
David Turnbull Actor
Martin Vaughan Actor
George Whaley Actor
Graeme Blundell Assistant Stage Manager
Peter Taylor Assistant Stage Manager
Betty Druitt Costume Designer
John Sumner Director
Robert Anderson Electrician
Orson Welles Playwright
John Sumner Set Designer
Arthur Hynes Stage Manager
Geof Rumney Stage Manager
Resources
Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Advertisement Dennis Wolanski Library collection at UNSW Library
Cast List MTC records
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 25095