A brilliant Moby Dick from Lookingglass Theatre, now at Arena Stage

DC Theatre Scene: We are borne to the land; it is on land that we became human, and evolved. We hunted the beasts which fed us with the ground firm beneath our feet. We learned land smells, and what they meant; we came to read shadow and light, as it exists on land, and to use land’s many features as signposts and guidemarks. If danger came, it most often came at a distance; we could recognize it and, estimating its speed over the flat ground, prepare for it.