REDCAT Presents 'And God Created Great Whales' 1/25-29
By: Kelsey Denette Jan. 09, 2012
REDCAT will launch its dynamic and interdisciplinary 2012 Winter/Spring Season of visual, performing and media arts with the Los Angeles premiere of Rinde Eckert's mesmerizing epic And God Created Great Whales. Hailed as "total magic" by The New York Times, this Obie Award-winning work of groundbreaking music-theater is a morbidly funny and deeply moving operatic journey into the psyche of an eccentric composer as he desperately tries to complete his final opus: an opera based on Melville's Moby-Dick. Performances will be held at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater Wednesday, Janaury 25 – Sunday, January 29, 2011.
Alpert Award-winner Rinde Eckert's tour de force performance draws the audience into the haunted world of Nathan, whose struggle against mental deterioration forces him to rely on a tape recorder worn around his neck, in place of a working memory, as his obsession with the opera becomes as total as Ahab's quest for the white whale.
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