‘Are you ready to go down the rabbit hole?’: inside a Moby Dick production like nothing you’ve seen before
Jesse Dorris
Avant-garde theater legend Robert Wilson’s final work was a bold reimagining of Melville’s classic. His collaborators explain bringing it to the Brooklyn stage Not far into Herman Melville’s 1851 epic novel Moby-Dick , a shipowner describes the man who will take their whaler on a tragic quest. Captain Ahab, he says, is “a queer man … a grand, ungodly, godlike man”. The same might be said of Robert Wilson . By the time he died last July at the age of 83, Wilson had transformed himself from a stut