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Sat 04 Apr 2009Review
MARY LELAND reviews
Moby Dickat the Town Hall, Youghal.
It is as if the team of actor Conor Lovett and director Judy Hegarty Lovett took as the guide to both adaptation and performance the whaler’s advice to “keep cool, keep cool, cucumber is the word”. There are no distractions as Lovett’s voice in its ordinary Irish tone introduces the story-teller Ishmael and the men with whom he goes to sea; the why of their being on the Pequod, the geography of their journey, the characteristics of the weather and of the wide trance of the sea, the killing of the whales they find, the encounters, especially with that of the Rachel and its grief-stricken commander.
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