Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at GableStage focuses on a morbidly obese man wanting to reconnect with his abandoned daughter before his imminent death. But the darkly funny and affecting play -- awash in profanity, cynicism, alienation and fatalism -- reveals itself to be about hope rooted in the innate decency inside scalded souls.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:11PM on July 20, 2014