This “Nantucket sleighride”, cracks along with all the excitement and fury you’d expect from such an epic sea adventure. From Ismael to Ahab and Queequeg to Starbuck, each of the Pequod’s crew is dramatic and mysterious, funny and compelling, Glanville’s Moby Dick is a great story.

Accessibility

Sensory warnings: There are no sensory warnings for this show.

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About the artist/company

Roderick began his career touring with curriculum-based programs for young audiences. For Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, National and International tours of Peter and the Wolf and Just So Stories. Film and Television credits include work with the National Film Board of Canada, and Hallmark. Two seasons with Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach. Directing for Kaleidoscope Theatre includes The Ant and the Grasshopper and The Boy who learned to fly. Program Producer in Education for the Maritime Museum of B.C., Gallery Animator for the Royal B.C. Museums Da Vinci Exhibit and Circus Magicus, he also created interactive programming for Craigdarroch Castle. He has performed with the Victoria Symphony with his adaptation of Peter and the Werewolf, and A Soldiers Tale. Stage adaptations for Kaleidoscope include, War of the Eagles, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince and Pinocchio. Roderick spent nine years as Artistic Director for Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People and now teaches for the Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Artist reviews:

“Masterful. Dramatic and mysterious, funny and compelling.” John Trelfall, Monday Magazine

“Brought vividly to life.” Times Colonist, Adrian Chamberlain.

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