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''Moby Dick—Rehearsed'' is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. The original cast included Welles, Gordon Jackson, Patrick McGoohan and Joan Plowright.〔Welles, Orson and Peter Bogdanovich, ''This is Orson Welles''. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992, ISBN 0-06-016616-9 Welles career chronology by Jonathan Rosenbaum, p. 418.〕 The play was published by Samuel French in 1965.〔Welles, Orson, ''Moby Dick—Rehearsed'': A Drama in Two Acts. New York: Samuel French, Inc., 1965, ISBN 0-573-61242-0. "Being an adaptation—for the most part in blank verse—of the novel by Herman Melville."〕 Welles used minimal stage design. The stage was bare, the actors appeared in contemporary street clothes, and the props were minimal. For example, brooms were used for oars, and a stick was used for a telescope. The actors provided the action, and the audience's imagination provided the ocean, costumes, and the whale. Welles filmed approximately 75 minutes of the production, with the original cast, at the Hackney Empire and Scala Theatres in London. He hoped to sell the film to ''Omnibus'', the United States television series which had presented his live performance of ''King Lear'' in 1953; but Welles stopped shooting when he was disappointed in the results. The film is lost.〔 ==Plot== The setting is a mid-19th-century American repertory theater. The play begins subtly as the audience arrives with the cast milling around an empty stage. The cast members generally fool around and complain about their boss and their forthcoming production of ''King Lear''. Then, making a big dramatic entrance and smoking a cigar, the actor manager of the time comes on stage and tells them they are going to rehearse a version of ''Moby Dick'' that he has been adapting for the stage. The cast grudgingly performs the play, improvising scenery from items lying around, and gradually get more into character as the play develops. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moby Dick—Rehearsed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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