The Rime of the Ancient Mariner School Production

01 May 2019

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner School Production

Bump in has begun, the Hall is transformed and it was a successful dress rehearsal for the upcoming St Vincent's College production of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner!

Only four days to go...if you haven't got your tickets book them now here 

Final adjustments are being made to the costumes and makeup...we congratulate the makeup artists on the incredible creation of the fake beards. Can you guess who the Ancient Mariner is in this picture?

And the story continues...

Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south by a storm and eventually reaches Antarctic waters. An albatross appears and leads them out of the ice jam where they are stuck, but even as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the mariner shoots the bird:

"With my cross-bow,
I shot the albatross."

The crew is angry with the mariner, believing the albatross brought the south wind that led them out of the Antarctic. However, the sailors change their minds when the weather becomes warmer and the mist disappears:

"'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist."

They soon find that they made a grave mistake in supporting this crime, as it arouses the wrath of spirits who then pursue the ship "from the land of mist and snow"; the south wind that had initially led them from the land of ice now sends the ship into uncharted waters near the equator, where it is becalmed.

"Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot – Oh Christ!
That ever this should be.
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs,
Upon the slimy sea."


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