MORE Theater/SB creates site-specific theater inspired by local stories, history, buildings, and our environment. We produce original plays and adaptations for non-traditional performance spaces throughout the Santa Barbara area.
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Whalers' Triptych II: The Harpooner Speaks
SUMMER 2026
The final installment of our Whalers’ Triptych cycle, based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, written experimenting with an AI generated script.
Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo, and Fedallah are harpooners undertaking what will be their last whaling expedition. Each considers their commitment to life and death in the oceans within their own cultural practices.
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Anna Karenina
AUTUMN 2026
An original adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel performed in 8 chapter installments.
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Madame Ebeneza's Holiday Inn
WINTER 2026
A retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol examining wealth acquisition and exploitation.
It’s the beginning of the holiday season in the foggy seaside town but Madame Ebeneza has no reservations at her Inn. Then her former associate, Margo, appears, angrily warning Ebeneza that her mistreatment, hoarding, and stinginess has produced three Spirits who will soon visit her. But they won’t be bringing the money or things that Ebeneza covets.
