The National Theatre co-commissioned mix of circus, dance and theatre from Square Peg Contemporary Circus based on Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner comes to The Black-E in Liverpool March 22 and The Lowry, Salford April 12-13.
Using the poem to elicit the emotional journey of the groom-to-be in the run up to his wedding, the performance is a combination of group acrobatics, human towers, Chinese pole, ropes and flips, drawn together by one of the UK’s freshest circus companies.
First premièred to a sold-out audience at Roundhouse in April 2012, Rime has been performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012 (Herald Angel Award winner), at the National Theatre’s Watch This Space festival, and Camp Bestival. This is the first large scale tour.