Moby Dick - Rehearsed

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Event Moby Dick - Rehearsed
Venue Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown, NSW
First Date March 1959
Opening Date March 1959
Last Date March 1959
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 theatre. 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. The cast grudgingly performs the play, improvising scenery from items lying around.
Description Source Other
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Subjects Actors
Fish
Seamen
Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Dorothy Bradley Actor
Marion Edward Actor
Lewis Fiander Actor
Frank Gatliff Actor
Charles Haggith Actor
Mary Hardy Actor
Alan Harvey Actor
Leon Lissek Actor
Brian McNeill Actor
George Ogilvie Actor
Frederick Parslow Actor
Ron Pinnell Actor
Barry Pree Actor
Robin Ramsay Actor
Frank Thring Actor
Marion Edward Assistant Stage Manager
Lyndel Rowe Assistant Stage Manager
Herman Melville Author
Anne Fraser Costume Designer
John Sumner Dialect Coach
Orson Welles Playwright
Anne Fraser Set Designer
Alan Harvey Stage Manager
Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information Original season at Union Theatre, Melbourne, in November 1959.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Cast List MTC records
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 77714