Press Releases 2008

"THE WHALE"
ONE-MAN SHOW TELLS THE CLASSIC STORY OF MAN'S STRUGGLE WITH NATURE

August 18, 2008

New Delhi - Delhi audiences were treated to a range of innovative theater techniques in an outstanding adaptation of the classic American novel "Moby Dick" on Thursday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sri Sathya Sai Auditorium. 

"The Whale" is a fascinating one-man play performed by dancer and actor Carlo Adinolfi, Creative Director of the New York-based Concrete Temple Theater.  Adinolfi employs a wide variety of storytelling traditions to tell the timeless tale of a man's struggle with the enormous forces of nature - as a single-minded ship's captain seeks to capture an enormous whale.

Using only his body, voice and an extraordinary collection of hand-crafted and rigged props, Adinolfi recreates life on a ship -- and even the great whale himself -- in a performance that has been described as being both "playful and profound"  as well as "an intense, poetic reaction" to the novel by Herman Melville.