LOCAL choir The Capriccio Singers will appear in an anarchic spoof version of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

The ensemble, which has members from Wirral, Formby and Southport, will be bringing their experience of modern arrangements of old favourites to the performance.

Moby Dick is award-winning production company Spymonkey’s first visit to the Liverpool Playhouse.

Four actors find themselves trapped inside the belly of a literary monster.

As they contemplate their fate, they recount the story of Moby Dick, updating the novel’s examination of good, evil, fate and obsession with other considerations, such as whether a mermaid figurehead can get pregnant or what a cannibal harpoonist from Bavaria eats.

The quartet will be blurring the boundaries between comic styles with musical numbers, the odd horn-pipe dance and fantastical costumes thrown in.

Spymonkey is an international team, comprising founder members Aitor Basuri, Petra Massey and Toby Park, who met through Swiss action-theatre company Karl’s Kuhne Gassenschau, and Stephan Kreiss.

Since its first show, Stiff, which claimed the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1988, the company has been compared to successful comedy teams such as Monty Python, the Marx Brothers, the Goons and Carry On.

They have also worked with Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity show, in Las Vegas.

The show is a co-production with Royal & Derngate Northampton.

MOBY DICK is at the Playhouse from October 20-24.