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The Forty Hour Club, a resident company of the famed La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in NYC will stage 'The Ahab Inside Me-Redux'-an original Blues Opera written by Maine and La MaMa Playwright Michael Gorman. The Opera will premiere at the historic Colonial Theater in downtown Augusta, Maine, July 20-23.
Maine playwright Michael Gorman lost his brother, a commercial fisherman, to a heroin overdose in 1998. To help process that loss, Gorman set out to write a trilogy of plays that explore the ruinous effects that opiate addiction has had on the fishing community. From that work other projects evolved including a blues opera, "The Ahab Inside Me," that runs this weekend at the Colonial Theater in Augusta.
Michael Gorman lost his older brother to a drug overdose in 1998 and has been writing about addiction ever since. His latest production will be staged at Augusta's Colonial Theater this weekend.