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In Billy Budd, Sailor a young seaman is press-ganged from a trading-ship to serve on a warship, in 1797, during the war between Revolutionary France and Great Britain, shortly after the British Navy's ?Great Mutiny' was brutally suppressed. Melville began by writing the ballad ?Billy in the Darbies' - and then worked and reworked the story until his death. Its closely-wrought themes of male companionship and frustrated desire reflect a lifelong obsession, partly resulting from his ship board experiences, but also deriving from his exceptionally deep and complex feelings for Nathaniel Hawthorne to whom he dedicated Moby Dick.T0729602575Company Theatre North. | |
| 31 Oct 12 to 2 Nov 12 | Tara Theatre, Outer London :: V292 listing details L0672909165 |
| 20 Sep 12 | Byre Theatre, St Andrews :: V640 listing details L1282381515 |
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