Moby Dick at Arena Stage

Moby Dick

Arena Stage
1101 Sixth Street, SW Washington

Set sail on the holiday season's biggest adventure! Melville's classic tale of man's obsessive battle against nature comes to life in "a triumph of grand theatrical imagination, deep thought, superb acting and eye-popping, ingeniously deployed physical daring" (Chicago Sun-Times). Innovative staging fused with bold trapeze and acrobatic work turn this seafaring classic into a death-defying experiment in aerial storytelling. Climb aboard with Captain Ahab and the crew of the good ship Pequod in this harrowing and intoxicating quest for the great white whale.

Thru - Dec 24, 2016

Tuesdays: 7:30pm

Wednesdays: 12:00pm & 7:30pm

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Price: $55 - $90

Box Office: 202-488-3300

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Moby Dick Reviews

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

"...Since Herman Melville published his landmark American novel in 1851, all kinds of "Moby Dicks" have followed: film and TV, opera, avant-garde theater-concerts. The acrobatic "Moby Dick" now crashing ashore at Arena Stage by way of Chicago is the kind you'd call a feat. Using only 10 actors, who are hoisted to the rafters and tossed through well-rendered tempests, the adventure is worked to a frothy high as the crew of the Pequod follows mad Captain Ahab's orders across a sea that at one point seems to sweep over the audience."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...A complex rigging of interlocking cables, ropes and steel clamps is harnessed by a skeletal steel structure. The structure is at once minimal and abstract, intricate and unambiguous, to suggest the belly of the beast. Lookingglass Theatre Company's Moby Dick, adapted and directed by David Catlin, gloriously inhabits the changing landscapes of Herman Melville's novel within the unlikely boundaries of the theatrical stage, leading the imagination to travel the globe. Masterful transformations convey the inactivity of the doldroms, an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with light winds, to the boundless action of revealed moments on a three-year whaling expedition to the Indian and South Pacific oceans. Great instants of visual intensity are created with flashes of fabric, the bound sway of shifting weight, the defiance of gravity, the spooling to a distant light, and the physical story-telling of thought, word and action."

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- Jane Franklin

MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

"...This is all to say that if you thought there was nothing left to say about Moby Dick, catch a ride on this bewitching Pequod and be thoroughly and most wonderfully transported."

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- Kate Wingfield

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...So my advice, in this most difficult and dark of seasons: get thee to the wharf, to the Mead Center near the water's edge in Southwest Washington, D.C., and prepare yourself for a truly amazing voyage."

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- Andrew White

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

"...Lookingglass' Moby Dick invites us to employ our imagination to create the universe in which the story operates, and this is a thousand times more effective than computerized special effects or similarly expensive claptrap. There is no greater special effects-machine than the human mind, and supplemented as it is by first-rate old-school sound (Rick Sims) and lighting (William C. Kirkman) designs, it creates the same sense of wonder, fear, and awe that Melville did in his novel, a hundred and sixty-five years ago."

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- Tim Treanor

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company's wonderfully inventive work is once again on display at Arena Stage following entertaining and visually stunning productions like The Arabian Nights and Metamorphoses. This time, the ambitious company takes on Herman Melville's classic story with David Catlin's adaptation of Moby Dick. As a story, Moby Dick offers numerous avenues for theatrical stagings - adventure filled-scenes, powerful displays of human emotion, vivid language, etc. - so it's of little surprise that many artists have tried to adapt the story for the stage. Catlin's adaptation and staging is one of the more creative and successful ones I've seen. As presented at Arena, Moby Dick offers many theatrical surprises that are sure to enthrall nearly any theatergoer looking for something a little different this holiday season."

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- Jennifer Perry

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

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