THE ANCIENT MARINER – FOR COLERIDGE’S 250 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – IN A CLIMATE CHANGE PRODUCTION CONCEPT, site-specific performances in the church where Coleridge is buried – 2022.

THE ANCIENT MARINER – FOR COLERIDGE’S 250 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – IN A CLIMATE CHANGE PRODUCTION CONCEPT, site-specific performances in the church where Coleridge is buried – 2022.

We gave performances of The Ancient Mariner in St. Michael’s Church, Highgate, where Coleridge is buried, for his 250th Birth Anniversary in October 2022.

Cast: Richard Hansell, Katie Buchholz, Sam Fairbrother. Director Valerie Doulton.

This production was presented in a climate change concept with visual images from David Attenborough’s B.B.C. film on Antarctica projected behind the actors (permission courtesy of the B.B.C.) With music by Benjamin Britten, John Tavener & Arvo Part.





Richard Hansell in the title role as the Mariner








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