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Article: Obsession; Kent Stephens' new play at the Jungle is about another play, by Orson Welles, based on a the classic Melville novel "Moby Dick." Stay tuned, it only sounds complicated.(VARIETY / FREETIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2003
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Byline: Nigel Hatton; Staff Writer
Kent Stephens knew that writing a play about Orson Welles and "Moby Dick" was a big undertaking. What he didn't anticipate was how the project would chip away at his growing doubts about the theater world that had been his milieu for decades.
In theater, "you keep encountering the same types of personalities, the same types of conflicts, the tiresome regularity," said the Minneapolis playwright/director, who also teaches theater at the University of Minnesota. "That creates cynicism. That's not in the play at all. The play is something very different. Hopefully, it's an endorsement of the camaraderie that results from ...
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... ... Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" instead. His own ... own megalomaniac, Orson Welles. Welles's only ... accomplishment of "Moby Dick Rehearsed" is that ... see it as well. Moby Dick Rehearsed, by Orson Welles. Directed by Jack ...
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