[NEohioPAL] Coleridge comes to Canton - Ancient ( Mariner) news

[Geoffrey and Rose Darling]

 It is an Ancient Mariner
And it's later than you think.
'Tis this coming weekend for
  'Nor any drop to drink'
Starts  Thursday.......Geoffrey  Darling  and  2nd April Galerie present      
  Coleridge    &The Ancient Mariner   
     A classical solo theatre voyage
              The Kathleen Howland Theatre
                                  2nd April Galerie
                   324 Cleveland Ave, Canton   - 
( googlemap knows where that it)
             Book (330) 451-0924  -  $10 , $5 student 
   August   28-29-30   at  8pm   
“    Ice mast high came floating by”  -  just the thing for a hot August night
 
 
Meet Samuel Taylor Coleridge:  Self-confessed dope addict,  lazybones,  failed family man and one of English Literature’s true greats as he nears the end of his 62-year-old life. 
 As Geoffrey Darling's solo show examines the effect of laudanum ( alcohol  and opium ) on the great man, who has just performed  The Ancient Mariner badly, we hear what amounts to a confession…..
Hear also a finely spoken performance of Coleridge’s miniature masterpiece Kubla Khan  and be asked “was it written in an opium dream as the poet claimed?”  
	* Hear Frost At Midnight and The Nightingale before Darling, as Coleridge, launches into a climactic and inspiring The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
	* Hear Coleridge battle his constant desire to run away   - from his studies, his responsibilities, his talent and his family ; the comedy of his quitting Cambridge and joining The Light Horse Dragoons  and the sadness of his inability to love his wife ‘half as much as I love my children’.  
	* Well- researched anecdotes create a journey back through his life until it is time to sweep them all away with a victorious (and sober) performance of his greatest work, The Ancient Mariner.  It’s a celebration of courage and a man's struggle to overcome his drug addiction – in just over one hour’s traffic on the stage.
Geoffrey Darling  - the actor and writer
Geoffrey Darling has been performing The Ancient Mariner for 23 years  - long before he was ‘ancient’ – but now pushing 60 he’s getting to look like the old guy in the story  - well at least  in Dore’s drawings.   Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner  has an international flavor.  Although Geoffrey Darling is an Ohio resident he is a native New Zealander and has presented the work in that country more than 100 times – at colleges, schools, and theaters all over New Zealand – and one visit to England in 1998 . 
He also performs The Gospel According to St Mark and this year began a special Prison Ministry in Ohio Institutions which is proving very popular. Cleveland’s Beck Center  (including the hugely acclaimedEquus), Actors’  Summit  ( A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Macbeth) and Magical Theater (Tuck Everlasting) are among his Ohio workplaces since arriving from New Zealand two years ago. 
TV commercial credits include the widely-aired Perfect People Not Allowed series for Canton’s Church of the Savior. He is a director, with his wife Rose, of the Sacred Arts Academy at Westminster Community Church in Canton
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