An empty piazza breathing in anticipation. An ancestral noise resounds: on a cart twenty sailors beat large wooden barrels. The rhythm sets the pace for the crew's work on the cart, which soon becomes a stage and a shipyard. Planks, ropes, hoists: the sailors build Pequod.
Inspired by Herman Melville's novel, "Moby Dick" by the Compagnia Teatro dei Venti is a succession of struggles and merry raids from which stories and people emerge. The ship is led by the shadow of the terrible Captain Achab, who throws himself into the hunt for the monstrous white whale, dragging the entire crew with him into a final confrontation. The captain against the whale.
Man against nature, prodigy, the unknown, the fear of the abyss. Moby Dick is a story of intertwined destinies, of a lifeline that becomes a predator, of storms that crash the hopes of human beings. A story of dreams and obsessions.
“Moby Dick” won the 2019 Ubu Award for best stage design, the 2019 Rete Critica award for design/organisation, and was the 2019 Last Seen performance of the year for the Krapp's Last Post magazine.
From a formal point of view, the staging of this performance is second only to Luca Ronconi's Orlando Furioso.
