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The Acting Company presents Moby Dick Rehearsed

PERFORMANCE RE-SCEHDULED TO

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008
Aronoff Center • Jarson-Kaplan Theater

Due to a routing conflict, the national tour of The Acting Company presents MOBY DICK REHEARSED has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:00 PM. Please update all calendar listings.

Originally scheduled for Monday, March 17, 2008, the production will be presented at the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater as part of the Cincinnati Arts Association’s 2007-08 Season.

MOBY DICK REHEARSED is Orson Welles’ acclaimed adaptation of the classic big fish story by Herman Melville. Only a fool – or perhaps a genius – would adapt one of the greatest American novels for the stage. Orson Welles was a bit of both. Those who enjoy having their literature served up in delightful dramatic adaptations will find much to enjoy in this hybrid of Herman Melville's story adapted to draw a parallel between King Lear and Captain Ahab.

A troupe of actors abandon their rehearsal of a play about one unforgiving, vengeance obsessed man, King Lear, to recreate another of the same emotional stripe, Captain Ahab. Set in an empty theater, a tyrannical actor-manager leads his crew and transports audiences to Captain Ahab’s fateful voyage across the open seas aboard the Pequod in search of the great white whale, Moby Dick.

Since its founding by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has performed 127 productions touring to 48 states and ten foreign countries. Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Jesse L. Martin, Frances Conroy, David Ogden Stiers, Jeffrey Wright and Rainn Wilson are but a handful of actors whose careers have been developed by The Acting Company.

Honored by the Tony Awards for Excellence in Theater, the Company has won the Obie, Audelco, Citibank’s Excellence in Education and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. See for yourself what makes The Acting Company (winner of the 2007 Acclaim Award for Best Touring Production – Jane Eyre), the most respected and praised touring repertory theater in America.

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