SYNOPSIS: In 2008, playwright Joe Forbrich built and sailed his 16-foot sailboat Jenny from Long Island to Martha's Vineyard to spend the summer apprenticing as a boatbuilder by day, while working by night as an actor at The Vineyard Playhouse. It was on this trip that he first heard the story of the Essex and, blissfully caught between the nautical and theatrical worlds, the idea for his play - the true story of the destruction of a whaleship by a vengeful leviathan - was born.