February 14, 2008
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CALENDAR INFORMATION

• WHEN: Thursday, March 20, 2008 • 8:00 PM
• WHERE: Aronoff Center for the Arts • Jarson-Kaplan Theater
• PRICES: $30
• INFO: Orson Welles understood the importance of treating the audience as a partner in creating illusion, which comes through vividly in this simple but riveting production of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick. A troupe of actors abandon their rehearsal of a play about one unforgiving, vengeance obsessed man, King Lear, to recreate another of the same emotional stripe, Captain Ahab. Set in an empty theater, a tyrannical actor-manager leads his crew and transports audiences to Captain Ahab's fateful voyage across the open seas aboard the Pequod in search of the great white whale, Moby Dick. The Acting Company (winner of the 2007 Acclaim Award for Best Touring Production - Jane Eyre) transforms Welles' play into deeply affecting theater - a mesmerizing theatrical tour-de-force that should be seen by young audiences and avid theater goers alike.

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Cincinnati, OH - Go from page to stage as the Cincinnati Arts Association presents The Acting Company's acclaimed production of Moby Dick Rehearsed, Orson Welles' stage adaptation of the classic novel by Herman Melville on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at the Aronoff Center's intimate Jarson-Kaplan Theater. The Acting Company, based in New York City, has been honored with the Obie Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Citibank's Excellence in Education Award, two Audelco Awards and a TONY® Honor for Excellence in Theater.

Orson Welles understood the importance of treating the audience as a partner in creating illusion, which comes through vividly in this simple but riveting production. Noted theater critic Kenneth Tynan wrote, "With this Moby Dick, the theater becomes once more a house of magic."

The Acting Company's production transforms Orson Welles' play into deeply affecting theater. Director Casey Biggs and a team of extremely talented actors and designers create a mesmerizing theatrical tour-de-force that should be seen by young audiences and avid theater goers alike. The creative team also includes Neil Patel (set design), Jared Aswegan (costume design), Michael Chybowski (lighting design), Fitz Patton (sound design and music), Felix Ivanov, (movement), and Deborah Hecht (voice coach).

Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Jesse L. Martin, Frances Conroy, David Ogden Stiers, Jeffrey Wright and Rainn Wilson are but a handful of actors whose careers have been developed by The Acting Company. Honored by the Tony Awards for Excellence in Theater, the Company has won the Obie, Audelco, Citibank's Excellence in Education and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

Since its founding by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has performed 127 productions touring to 48 states and ten foreign countries. With the presentation of Orson Welles' Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Acting Company continues its 36-year tradition of bringing touring classical productions, talented young actors and teaching artists into communities across America.

See for yourself what makes The Acting Company the most respected and praised touring repertory theater in America.

For more information about The Acting Company's production of Moby Dick Rehearsed, visit www.theactingcompany.org.

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