<Moby-Dick>




Production History
2025 Premiere at Haddangse Theatre



Synopsis
he Pequod, mid-way through its investor briefing and departure ceremony.
Herman Melville's [Moby-Dick].
Key Point 1) A contemporaneity that meets economics born from the whaling industry!
The production draws on economic concepts that trace their roots to the whaling industry — stock options, profit-sharing models (distributing shares), insurance for risk diversification, funds and capital (diversified investment) — and unpacks them through a capitalist lens. Rather than a simple adventure story, Moby-Dick becomes a symbolic vessel for capitalist modes of production, the essential nature of human labor, the logic of capital, and industrial desire and ruin.
Key Point 2) Part I: A 'wicked comedy' exposed under fluorescent light
Haddangse reinterprets the weighty, intricate atmosphere of the original Moby-Dick through its own signature bright humor and incisive perspective. This 'wicked comedy,' which draws laughter by baring the illusions of the human crowd in all their nakedness, goes beyond conventional theatrical form by staging the creative process itself, stirring the audience's imagination. On a stage where objects and actors are in constant variation, the essential pleasure of theatre stays vividly alive.
Key Point 3) A distinctive intermission!
Between Part I and Part II, the audience is offered a distinctive intermission that reflects the character of the production.
Key Point 4) Part II: A tragedy that strikes like a typhoon
The audience becomes 'investors in the whaling ship,' joining the stage as part of it. They experience a complex mix of emotions — seeing through the eyes of the hunter pursuing the whale, while also, at the same time, seeing as a member of a humanized society of whales. The staging, which dissolves the boundary between stage and seats, maximizes immersion and pulls the audience deep into the vortex of tragedy.
press
[거침없이 연극 리뷰] 연극은 위대한 놀이다…극단 하땅세의 ‘모비딕’
https://www.dailysmart.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=102392
선택받는 애도, 극단 하땅세 '모비딕' [Q리뷰]
https://www.sportsq.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=475860

