Moby Dick – A Tale of a Whale
Adapted by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville with Hilary Adams
Writer Julian Rad and Director Hilary Adams created a bare stage adaptation of Moby Dick that premiered in New York City in 2003.
The Off-Off Broadway ‘play with music’ was nominated for three 2004 Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play (Julian Rad, writer/Works Productions, producer), Outstanding Director of a Play (Hilary Adams) and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Michael Berry as Starbuck).
Moby Dick was the first Off-Off Broadway production to ever be nominated in the Play and Director categories in the 50 year history of the Drama Desk Award.
“Themes circle this play like sharks in a feeding frenzy; it deals with fundamental issues such as fate versus free choice but it also resonates with the basic dynamic of leaders and followers: We are often at the mercy of a leader (personal, business, military, political, etc.) who makes judgments on our behalf based on personal motives rather than the general good. Seeing this truth played out in a well done stage version of Melville’s tumultuous tragedy has a powerful effect.” TheatreMania.com review
Directed by Julia Thudium, the cast includes Vic Browder, Peter Diseth, Brian Haney, John Hardman, Marc Lynch, Ruben Muller, Kelly O’Keefe, Ernest W. Sturdevant and Nicholas Ballas as Ahab.
Presented in partnership with the Albuquerque Bio Park.
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When: September 3rd through September 26th
Curtain: Thursday & Friday at 8pm Saturday 6pm, Sunday 2pm
Where: The Filling Station, 1024 4th St. SW, located on historic, pre-1937 Route 66.
Tickets: $16
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Show Cast
Directed by Julia Thudium, the cast includes Vic Browder, Peter Diseth, Brian Haney, Marc Lynch, Ruben Muller, Kelly O’Keefe, Ernest W. Sturdevant, and, Nicholas Ballas as Ahab.
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2010 Prebut: Love and Madness
For our 2010 Season starting in April we will bring you The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, featuring Julia Thudium, Morse Bicknell, Kathy Wimmer and Quinn P. Rol. April 2nd-25th.
In September we will set sail with Moby Dick adapted by Julian Rad from the book by Herman Melville with Hilary Adams, September 3rd-26th.
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February 11 - 21, 2010
Thurs & Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 2pm
Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
The play is a blend of black comedy, melodrama, horror and bleak tragedy. The story is set in an Irish village Leenane, Connemara in the early 1990s. The entire play takes place in a shabby, poorly lit kitchen, resulting in a claustrophobic sense of entrapment.
The play centers on the life of Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old spinster who takes care of her 70 year-old, selfish and manipulative mother Mag. Sisters of Maureen have escaped into marriage and family life, but Maureen, with a history of mental illness, is trapped in a seriously dysfunctional relationship with her mother.
In the course of the play, the Folan cottage is visited by Pato Dooley and his younger brother Ray. Pato is a middle-aged construction worker fed up with having to live and work in England, disappointed by the limitations and loneliness of his life. The sameness of its day-to-day is tedious also for his brother, a non-threatening ‘bad boy’ Ray.
The glimmer of a last-chance romance between Maureen and Pato sparks up in the first act, and continues in the second one with a notable monologue of Pato. The plot, full of deceptions, secrets and betrayals interspersed with turnabouts keeps surprising the reader. Hopes are raised only to be dashed.
Awards
* 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play
* 1998 Drama League Award for Best Play
* 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
* 1998 Outer Critics Circle Award Best Broadway Play
Nominations
* 1998 Drama Critics’ Circle Award
* 1998 Tony Award for Best Play
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April 2 - April 25, 2010
Show Cast
Kathy Wimmer, Morse Bicknell, Quinn P. Rol and Julia Thudium
