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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’.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Performed by John O’Mahony and designed and directed by Sue Hill of the Eden Project Cornwall, formerly of KneeHigh Theatre Company and WildWorks.
“A tour de force by a master storyteller. Not to be missed” John O’Mahony bio
John is an actor with four decades of performance experience across every branch of the media from film, television, radio, audiobooks, computer games and, in his first love, the theatre, from village halls to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Old Vic, Regional Reps and London’s West End. Credits include Bilbo Baggins and The Steward of Gondor In The Lord of the Rings (The Watermill Theatre), Duncan and the Porter in Macbeth (Exeter Northcott), Stephano/ Gonzalo in The Tempest (Regent’s Park), Van Helsing in Dracula, Niels Bohr In Copenhagen (The New Vic) Eddy in Fisherman’s Friends (UK/Canada Tour), Keith/Chorus in This Restless House/The Oresteia (Edinburgh International Festival), Father Rudden in Puckoon (Leicester Square Theatre and various tours).
GUIDANCE: Suitable for 12yrs+
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