Saturday, February 1, 8pm.  At Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, SINY 10301. Directed by Vincent Vok.

Staten Island OutLOUD presents a stage reading of a rarely-performed play by the legendary Orson Welles, directed by Vincent Vok. With John Bostrom, Thomas Fucaloro, Ritty Mahoney, J. Keith McCauley, Gary Moore, Vincent Vok, and Ken Tirado.
First staged in London in 1955, the cast included Christopher Lee, Patrick McGoohan, and Joan Plowright. In the 1960s, a Broadway production featured the young Rod Steiger. Both runs were brief; Welles filmed portions of the London performance, but it was never released, and the film has reportedly been lost. However, some fragile footage of various Welles projects are in storage, perhaps awaiting a day when restoration technology advances.
The play begins with actors milling around on a stage as audience members arrive and take their seats. Actors can be heard joking and gossiping and grousing about their director. Suddenly the director appears, bounds up onto the stage and announces that they’ll rehearse his new adaptation of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”.
What happens next is …
“Moby Dick Rehearsed” is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company.
This event is part of Staten Island OutLOUD’s series for The Big Read/NEA on Nathaniel Philbrick’s “In the Heart of the Sea”, the tragedy of the whaleship Essex, rammed and sunk by a giant whale in 1820. The story of the Essex inspired young Herman Melville as he began work on “Moby Dick”. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum & Library Services, and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.  #neabigread  #statenislandoutloud