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| Braden Wahl, Tom Mangum, Keath Hall, and Justin Hosten Photo by Devon C. Adams |
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"Mark Rosenwinkel's adaptation of Henry Melville's "Moby-Dick" proves that a sprawling literary classic can be condensed for the stage without losing its soul. This 75-minute, four-person production embraces its scaled-down nature, using it as a strength rather than a limitation. With remarkable clarity and theatrical ingenuity, the piece focuses the novel's central, and sometime sprawling, ideas into something that feels both immediate and emotionally resonating. With a talented cast and impressive creative elements, Southwest Shakespeare's production of Moby Dick feels both intimate and expansive, capturing the spirit of Melville's work in a clean and crisp way that makes its themes land with a striking force." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)
"When a novel as vast and unruly as MOBY DICK drifts onto the stage, you expect compromise. What you don’t expect is how liberating that compromise can be. Mark Rosenwinkel’s adaptation doesn’t try to haul Melville’s leviathan aboard intact. Instead, it trims the story to the bone, trusting the audience’s imagination to supply the sea around it. The surprise in this Southwest Shakespeare Company production is how theatrical the result can feel. Now playing at the Mesa Arts Center until April 4, Rosenwinkel’s script reduces the sprawling narrative to a lean storytelling engine, told in just over seventy-five minutes, then oddly stretched with an unnecessary intermission." - David Appleford, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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