In this episode we cover Orson Welles’ various efforts to produce, direct, and star in Moby Dick, covering a radio play (1946), a metafictional theater production, Moby Dick - Rehearsed (1955), and fragments of an incomplete film version (1971). Welles is clearly having a great time, and so are we, as he plays Ahab, Ahab, Father Mapple, and also Ahab. He also expresses, both in Moby Dick - Rehearsed and in his actions, an interest in the questions that run through Moby Dick, which gives our hosts a lot to chew on.

Check out the Mercury Summer Theatre Moby Dick radio play here or here!

Next episode: Moby Dick...as an anime... in space...in the 90s! In “Hakugei - Legend of the Moby Dick!”