Press Releases 2008
"The Whale" -- One-Man Show Tells The Classic Story of Man’s Struggle With Nature
August 18, 2008
New Delhi - Delhi audiences were treated to a range of innovative theater techniques in an outstanding adaptation of the classic American novel "Moby Dick" on Thursday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sri Sathya Sai Auditorium.
"The Whale" is a fascinating one-man play performed by dancer and actor Carlo Adinolfi, Creative Director of the New York-based Concrete Temple Theater. Adinolfi employs a wide variety of storytelling traditions to tell the timeless tale of a man's struggle with the enormous forces of nature - as a single-minded ship's captain seeks to capture an enormous whale.
Using only his body, voice and an extraordinary collection of hand-crafted and rigged props, Adinolfi recreates life on a ship -- and even the great whale himself -- in a performance that has been described as being both "playful and profound" as well as "an intense, poetic reaction" to the novel by Herman Melville.