Tonight we have been to see a one person performance of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and it was brilliant, powerful and totally absorbing. The performance, sensitive and dramatic, the simple and very effective set and the haunting sound effects combined to make a stunning and very atmospheric show. It’s performed by John O’Mahony and produced by our lovely neighbour, Sue Hill. If you get the chance to see it, go along! There are lots of venues. For friends in Cornwall, there will be performances in Penzance and Scorrier House.
Check out the website for all the information here.
Programme cover
John O’Mahony as the Ancient Mariner
Plastic debris all collected from the beach and harbour at Portreath, used on the set.
After-show questions
From the programme:
“Coleridge’s epic poem is magnificently brought to life in John O’Mahony’s mesmerising account. He sets the scene, draws the characters, and takes the audience on a spell-binding journey.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s story of an epic sea journey, written in 1797, centres around the killing of a harmless sea-bird – the albatross. The havoc wreaked by this pointless act of vandalism explodes into one of the most popular and best loved poems in the English language.
In an age that is increasingly aware of humanity’s relationship to, and dependence upon, the environment, Coleridge’s ‘poem of the biosphere’ is undergoing a popular revival. And no wonder; it is a rollicking good yarn suffused with elements of the gothic and the downright ghostly… ‘an unforgettable story told in unforgettable language’.
“A tour de force by a master storyteller. Not to be missed”
