Buntport Theater

Three sailors sit in a small sailboat. A fourth sits on the edge of the boat, wearing bright yellow waders

Moby Dick Unread

THAR SHE BLOWS

Four performers, one boat on wheels and a few buckets of water add up to all 135 chapters of Melville’s classic novel.

With a layman’s cursory knowledge of this epic, Buntport is belly-flopping right in. And the water is … funny and strange and beautiful and difficult and surprising.

Melville’s most famous work has been adapted many times for the stage and screen, but our approach might be a little different. Sure, we’ve left in the all too familiar storyline of Ahab’s obsession with the white whale. However, unlike so many before us, we’ve also left in all of Melville’s meanderings, side stories, educational chapters about the whaling business, etc. This is Moby Dick with the fat left on. And in true Buntportian fashion, it all happens fast and with the help of little more than some rope, pulleys and fabric.