Sailing Towards My Father: A One-Man Play

Jonathan Trumbull Library
Event Date: 
Thursday, August 29, 2019 - 6:30pm

Sailing Towards my Father Performed by Stephen Collins, written by Carl A. Rossi.

Sailing Towards My Father is a one-man play about Herman Melville (1819-1891), the American author best known for his whaling epic Moby-Dick; The play chronicles Melville’s life from youth to old age, concentrating on his evolution as a writer and his complex relations with God, his parents and siblings, his wife and children, and Nathanial Hawthorne.

Performed as a Theater in the Round.

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