John Drew Theater Lab: Staged Reading of The Ape & the Whale: An Interplay Between Darwin & Melville in Their Own Wor

Tuesday November 17 at 7:30pm

John Drew Theater Lab: Staged Reading of The Ape & the Whale: An Interplay Between Darwin & Melville in Their Own Words

by Barbara Novak

Directed by James Larocca

Featuring Gerard Doyle and David McElwee

While Darwin and Melville never met, their interests overlapped across a very wide range of issues, from the geography and science of the Galapagos to the peoples and cultures of the South Pacific, God, nature, madness, and immortality. Barbara Novak has artfully put them in the same room, imagined their intense conversation, and juxtaposed their actual words into a vivid dialogue. Selecting from their own letters, reports, journals and books, the author has constructed the riveting conversation they might have had had the stars aligned.

FREE

The John Drew Theater in the Dina Merrill Pavilion at Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, New York 11937, 631.324.0806

Dine at The 1770 House before the JDTLab and enjoy a special $27.00 two-course, prix fixe dinner by providing the code JDTLab!

http://www.guildhall.org/events/?id=757&mode=id