One of the most unique plays to hit theaters in a "The Whale," by Samuel D. Hunter and directed Davis McCallum shows the life of a morbidly obese man.
"The Whale," is on from Tuesday, Nov. 6 to Dec. 2 and will cost patrons $60 to $72 at the Playwirghts Horizon and will be an hour and 55 minutes long
"Charlie," played by the 600lbs man that come into view of the play and according to Time Out New York his massive bulk paints a dark and grim picture of how his situation really is
"Charlie is a cellulite monument to guilt and shame."
That is exactly what viewsers will see when they catch a view of what "The Whale," is about. Time Out New York went on to say.
The Whale is tragedy in a minor key, about a man torn between flesh and spirit. From the start, we know it won't end with reality-TV gastric surgery and rehab. Charlie's unofficial caregiver and enabler, nurse Liz (Cassie Beck), delivers a diagnosis of congestive heart failure. Repeated references to Moby Dick add an air of fateful doom. Although he's a world-class denier of the truth, Charlie is spurred to close accounts before judgment day.
A character who is trying to reunite with his estranged daughter who he abandoned along with her when he found out he was gay only to have his affection throw straight back at him by his child.
Time Out calls him a "greasy, unshaved heffalump on a caved-in couch, squeezed into perspiration-caked sweats," there is a real feel of sadness to this story and they won't be a happy ending to speak of as Hunter shows just like in real life.
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