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The Performers
Location: Kent
Gallery Theatre
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Adapted by Malcolm Thomas & Rob Jones
Directed and Designed by Malcolm Thomas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Malcolm Thomas
Cecil Madden: Rob Jones
All songs are traditional arranged by Rob Jones.
Coleridge published this ballad poem in 1798 in a collection of lyrical ballads with William Wordsworth.
In the strange, terrible and allegorical tale, we hear of a ship that is driven toward the South Pole, where the Ancient Mariner, in contempt of the laws of hospitality, kills an Albatross and is then followed by punishments from invisible beings, before being allowed home to live with his regret.
Two days short of exactly 70 years ago on the 23rd July 1934, Cecil Madden gathered a group of Gravesend Pilots in Broadcasting House and recorded a programme about sea shanties. All of these men had worked on the tall masted sailing ships and knew these old rimes and tunes by heart, because they were the sailor’s work songs.
This adaptation by Malcolm Thomas and Rob Jones intertwines the two tales and examines the mariner’s physical and spiritual relationship with ships and the sea.
One of the ancient mariners heard in the Madden programme is “Pappy” Jones, Rob’s grandfather.
Listen out for...The Shipwrights Sea Shanty Singers
Who will be entertaining us with a wide range of sea songs & Shanties
And inviting hearty vocal participation
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