Performance: Sailing Towards my Father

Sailing Towards my Father
written and directed 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.

Actor, Stephen Collins, grew up in Cambridge, and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves – performing and teaching. Recently he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations throughout the country. Seats are limited – reserve your seat early on our online calendar: http://ow.ly/YLWx50xEqux

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Newbury Town Library