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The rising ensemble of boundary-breaking artists returns to A.R.T.

An interview with Moby-Dick scenic designer Mimi Lien on her process for bringing the voyage of the Pequod to life onstage.

“Moby-Dick” winnows through its genre-hopping source, extracting universal themes from the novel. Unlike “Great Comet,” however, “Moby-Dick” is a quintessentially American work, addressing topics from the 19th century that remain relevant today.

“We didn’t want to just tell the story. We wanted to embrace the novel’s insane sprawling nature, the experimentation with form, and the fact that it goes off on these wild digressions…,” says Malloy.

“This is famously the ‘Great American Novel’ that Melville was using in 1851 to examine the period and think about everything that was tearing the country apart in that moment,” Chavkin said. “That was something that Dave and I took really seriously in thinking about this version now, and what that would look like and feel like in the 21st century.”

Host Jim Braude speaks with Boston Globe Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt and Deadria Harrington, the producing artistic leader of The Movement Theatre Company.

Aleshea Harris contemplates the black body. It is a celebration and a battlefield, a terrain upon which a nation’s racism is enacted.

This production is concerned with the most pressing themes of our time, and it is my sincere hope that the images you see in this production haunt you.

A conversation between A.R.T. Executive Producer Diane Borger and Moby-Dick Adaptor and Composer Dave Malloy.