In this examination of Herman Melville's novel, a small group of performers and musicians around Maria Neumann focus on the figure of Captain Ahab. He is bloodthirsty and relentless, whips his subordinates into a merciless chase, and in the next moment seems touchingly helpless: a delirious man of whom one does not know whether he is actually driven by his desire for revenge on the high seas or the stormy ocean of his own thoughts. His faithful crew is at the same time a caring one, supporting and accompanying their captain with peculiar tenderness. Together with Ahab, delusionally torn by his affects, the center of the production is the white whale, inseparable from him, which possibly dwells in an unfathomable body of water in Raffelberg Park. read less