Moby-Dick

Theater On The Lake
2400 N. Lakeshore Drive Chicago

This stunning adaptation mixes Melville's prose with movement and miniature ships as a chorus of Ishmaels captures not only the shifting currents of the novel itself, but also the contagious nature of obsession. They are joined by a trio of percussionists whose driving rhythms underscore the action and propel Ahab's obsession to its fateful conclusion.