All plot will be lampooned. All jokes will be harpooned.
Nantucket, 1841. Ishmael signs on to the Pequod, and witnesses the perils of nature, obsession, punning and physical comedy, as Captain Ahab conducts a reckless pursuit of the savage white whale, Moby Dick.
Herman Melville’s classic tale of revenge and retribution is retold in this inventive, comic retelling on the high seas from the company behind Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show and Dracula! One Bloody Fang After Another.
Maybe Dick is the latest piece of new writing to tour from Hambledon Productions, a Lincolnshire based theatre company of seventeen years that specialises in classic comedy and new, local writing. After a sell-out tour of festivals and smaller venues in 2023, Maybe Dick, via an exciting co-production with New Bedford’s Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, USA, is embarking on a new nationwide theatre tour.
Written and performed by John Hewer and directed by Bruce Knight.
White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Rd, London SE11 4DJ from 19 – 23 March 2024. Times: Tuesday – Saturday at 7:30pm. Admission: £15 & £12 concs.
Booking: https://www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/maybe-dick
