The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Musical
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Musical, an adaptation of Coleridge’s poem by Margaret Gonzalez
I am including my own recent adaptation of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. If you have a group that wants to put on a play for Earth Day next year, I am offering this musical version for your consideration. I directed it this year, and you will find photos of our production down here in Fort Myers, Florida. A musical friend and I wrote some tunes, and we used other tunes in the public domain. To help the audience see the relevance of killing an albatross to other forms of environmental destruction I wrote a couple of scenes for an adult and two kids. Though faithful to Coleridge’s words for the most part, I cut out parts of his denouement. Another editorial decision was to divide the ancient mariner into two parts, the teller of the tale and the poor guy on the boat. I also split the part of the albatross between a dancer and a, well, dead bird. That’s the dancer on the cover.
