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Spymonkeys, Moby Dick. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Picture from spymonkey.co.uk

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 21st 2009.

Cast: Aitor Basauri, Petra Massey, Toby Park, Stephen Kreiss.

If a classic book is worth recreating on stage then it is worth doing absurdly and with much gusto and insanely as possible.

In all honesty, not even straight theatre would tackle Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick without some trepidation and a crateful of memory loss inducing alcohol to forget the whole idea. It would be too overblown, expensive and almost impossible to re-create but such is the excellence of the four-strong cast that they were able to play nearly every part that was required of them with quickest of costume changes possible and with some of the greatest use of the imagination possible and not a quibble between them.