Moby-Dick

"'Armesto makes an impressive job of boiling down the sprawling tale of 19th-century whale hunting, groaning with endless digressions, to its essence...a taut and ripping sea yarn - which nevertheless hasn't lost the sense of Melville's epic quest for life's meaning' Metro 'Muscular and terse - vivid and profound.' Time Out 'Armesto's adaptation captures not only this sense of pursuit - of Ahab's blinkered need to keep going, whatever the cost - but also the wider themes of the book, the primal tangle between predestination and free will, the holiness of whales - from start to finish it exerts an incredible grip' The Stage 'Incredibly enterprising and ingenious - a remarkable achievement' What's On Stage '[A] bold and brilliant stage adaptation - The script is well crafted, turning the dated but nonetheless adventure-filled novel, into an accessible show, full of the story's original poetry - This is two hours of immensely entertaining theatre, complete with gold doubloons, sea shanties and rum' Telegraph"