The Ahab Inside Me

"A High-Sea's Blues Opera"

From the famed La MaMa Theatre in N.Y.C. and acclaimed Maine playwright Michael Gorman comes a NEW ground-breaking Blues Opera and epic tale of addiction & recovery.

In a tale that stretches across generations and ancients—lost mariners, lost souls, lost lives—“The Ahab Inside Me” is a provocative and challenging new musical theater production that explores the traumatic impact of a fatal overdose on a fishing family and the inspiring efforts of the community to address the destructive roots of addiction.

This inspiring production will incorporate original live music and song (with a full band), spoken word, dramatic performance, commentary choruses, community participation, and more—to restore connections lost or frayed by the compound crises of the opiate epidemic and COVID.

Performers will include community members of all ages, from both the theater and recovery communities, as well as professional actors, singers and musicians.

The production is part of Gorman’s on-going project Chasing The New White Whale—Harpooning Addiction—a performance-based art & advocacy model created by the playwright and his production company The Forty Hour Club—a collective in independent artist’s dedicated to bringing awareness to the issue of opiate addiction in the commercial fishing community of New England and beyond.

Come join us at the historic Colonial Theater in downtown Augusta for this exciting production and event!

3 SHOWS at the historic Colonial Theatre in Augusta, ME!

DATES & SHOWTIMES:

Friday, Sept. 2nd @ 7:00 pm

Saturday, Sept. 3rd @ 7:00pm

Sunday, Sept 4th @ 3:00pm

TICKETS: $25 suggested donation, per person. (or pay-what-you-can)

We rely on Grassroots donations to help bring our productions to communities in need. Your support is greatly appreciated! Ticket proceeds directly support the production and the project "Chasing The New White Whale—Harpooning Addiction"

And...$1 from every ticket sold will go towards supporting the restoration of the historic Colonial Theater!

COLONIAL THEATER, 139 Water Street, Augusta, Maine 04330

A FORTY HOUR CLUB PRODUCTION

More Information: www.fortyhourclub.com