BEN OKRI
Ben Okri’ s ‘ Moby Dick – Queequeg speaks’ in Antwerp
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Gorges Ocloo had for a long time wanted to create a play based on Herman Melville’s literary classic Moby Dick. Ocloo contacted the Nigerian writer Ben Okri for the adaptation of Moby Dick.
He reworked Melville’s account to create a magic-realist story of the gap between power and powerlessness, high and low, rich and poor. A story set after the ship has sunk. In a poetic and enchanting world inspired by voodoo and animist tales. A place where anything is possible. Where Ahab and Queequeg exchange views for the first time, free from status and ego, free from material things, pure and untrammelled.
Playing May – June 2020
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