SLUNG Low are the Leeds company that brought you Blood + Chocolate on the York streets in conjunction with Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal.

Alan Lane's company is back on home turf, or rather home water, for James Phillips' modern retelling of Moby Dick as The White Whale. "Made by" Slung Low, it says in the programme/script, and the word is well chosen.

Sling Low don't "present" theatre; they make it before your eyes. Yes, technology, is important too because audience members arranged around the Leeds Dock are each issued with a headset to tune into the actors' live dialogue, but theatre making is so physical in a Slung Low show.

Here, Lane's cast must cope with conditions as if they have gone to sea with Oliver Senton's gravel-voiced, obsessively driven Ahab, after the Pequod first emerges from beneath the surface in a coup de theatre by designer David Farley. Storms, whale plumes; being thrown overboard and fire all await.

As ever, Slung Low's theatre is visually spectacular and on this occasion it surpasses Phillips's script, which leaves several actors speaking with too similar rhythms. Liam Evans-Ford's American war correspondent finds more nuances and the talking-point character is Nima Taleghani's Muslim Ishmael, a young man at war with himself over his faith.

The White Whale, Slung Low, Leeds Dock, by the Royal Armouries, tonight and tomorrow, 8.30pm; sold out.