<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>It is an <FONT size=6>Ancient Mariner</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>And he's coming up for <FONT size=5>three</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Shows in downtown <FONT size=6>Canton</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><U>August Twenty-eight, twenty-nine and Thir -ur- tee</U></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Geoffrey Darling - that well known North-East Ohio actor with funny accent - and 2nd April Galerie present</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=7> Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner</FONT></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></I><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Rockwell Extra Bold','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A classical solo theatre voyage<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><STRONG>The Kathleen Howland Theatre<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"><STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2<SUP>nd</SUP> April Galerie<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"><STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>324 Cleveland Ave, Canton<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cambria','serif'"><STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Book (330) 451-0924<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$10 , $5 student <o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><STRONG><SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>August<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>28-29-30 <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>at <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>8pm<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><STRONG><SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Ice mast high came floating by”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>just the thing for a hot August night</SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Water, water, every where - and lots of things to drink at the next-door bar afterwards</SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #333333; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><o:p><STRONG> </STRONG></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Meet Samuel Taylor Coleridge:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-confessed dope addict,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>lazybones,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>failed family man and one of English Literature’s true greats as he nears the end of his 62-year-old life. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Geoffrey Darling's solo show examines the effect of laudanum ( alcohol <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and opium ) on the great man, who is attempting to perform The Ancient Mariner without recourse to his habitual drug of choice, without his usual safety net. </FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Hear also a finely spoken performance of Coleridge’s miniature masterpiece <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kubla Khan</I><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and be asked “was it written in an opium dream as the poet claimed?” <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; COLOR: #333333; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Hear <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Frost At Midnight </I>and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Nightingale</I> before Darling, as Coleridge, launches into a climactic and inspiring <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner</I>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; COLOR: #333333; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Hear Coleridge battle his constant desire to run away<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- from his studies, his responsibilities, his talent and his family ; the comedy of his quitting Cambridge and joining The Light Horse Dragoons<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and the sadness of his inability to love his wife ‘<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">half as much as I love my children’</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; COLOR: #333333; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Ancient Mariner</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><FONT size=1>Geoffrey Darling has been performing The Ancient Mariner for 23 years<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- long before he was ‘ancient’ – but now pushing 60 he’s getting to look like the old guy in the story<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- well at least <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in Dore’s drawings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner </I><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>has an international flavour (Like the spelling).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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 . <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=1><FONT face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif">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<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(including the hugely acclaimed<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Equus</I>), Actors’<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Summit<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>( <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Macbeth</I>) and Magical Theater (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Tuck Everlasting</I>) are among his Ohio workplaces since arriving from New Zealand two years ago.</FONT> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#000000><o:p><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>For more information: </FONT><A href="mailto:geoffrose05@yahoo.com"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>geoffrose05@yahoo.com</FONT></A><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=1> should shake him from his tree.</FONT></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#000000 size=3><o:p>So - zoom down I-77 for a summer evening of Coleridge - and sip at Primo's Bar next door after the show.</o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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