“FULL FATHOM FIVE”

An anthology of the Sea, performed at the Maskers Bassett Studio in October 1976

 

THE MASKERS THEATRE COMPANY

with

THE FO’C’S’LE FOLK CLUB

 

 

THE COMPANY

Readers and Actors - directed by Sonia Morris

Ann Archer

Carol Clark

Ken Spencer

David Bartlett

Jenny McConnell

Alan Watson

Sheana Carrington

Jim Smith

Jenni Watson

 

The Hampshire Union - songs researched by Jon Witcher

Pete Harris

Chris Mitchell

Dudley Savage

Jon Witcher

 

 

 

Dance and Mime - choreographed by Jennie Cox

Mary Brand

Kay Hann

Teresa Stace

Carol Clark

Steve Lange

Kate Summerton

Mary Elliott

Meri Lawther

Alan Watson

Paul Elliott

Terry Purse

Sandy White

Gina Evans

Georgina Williams

 

FOR THE MASKERS

Compiled by

Sonia Morris

Directed b

Jennie Cox

Technical Director

Ron Tillyer

Stage Manager

Keith Hooper

Lighting

Clive Weeks

Sound

Tony Lawther

Set Design &Decoration

Ken Spencer

Set Construction

Alan Baker

Wardrobe

Kay Hann

Assisted by

Anne Strong

Business Management

Brian Stansbridge

Publicity

Graham Buchanan

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

  1. Staring at the Sea      (Ted Hughes)
  2. From “God Beneath the Sea”   (Leon Garfield & Ed Blishen)
  3. Sea Music  (W.J.Turner), Music - Celtic Harp
  4. Quotations - authors given

 

SECTION ONE - THE SEAFARER

‘The waves they were lapping and slapping, the same as they are today;’: Alfred Noyes

 

  1. From “Beowulf” (Ed. & Tr. by Charles Kennedy)
  2. Extracts from various early chronicles
  3. Harp Song of the Dane Women   (Rudyard Kipling)
  4. From “The Seafarer” (Tr. from the Anglo-Saxon by M.Alexander)
  5. From “Dragon Slayer”   (Rosemary Sutcliffe)
  6. From New World Symphony” by Dvorak
  7. From “The Age of Exploration”  (John R.Hale)
  8. “There was an Indian” (Sir John Squire)
  9. From “The Age of Exploration,’  (John R.Hale)
  10. Song “The Cape’s in View”
  11. From “The Spanish Armada”  (C. Falkus)
  12. Speech to the troops at Tilbury - Elizabeth 1
  13. Song “The Quaker”
  14. “The Admiral’s Ghostl”   (Alfred Noyes)
  15. From “Nelson and The Hamiltons”    (J. Russell)
  16. Song “The Death of Nelson”
  17. From “The British Sailor” (P.Kemp)

 

SECTION TWO - A SAILOR’S LIFE

‘They went to sea in a sieve they did’: Edward Lear

 

  1. From “The Jumblies” (Edward Lear)
  2. “A Sailor’s Life” - Songs sung and presented by The Hampshire Union - “Le Pique;”, “Just as the Tide was flowing”, “Yeller Girls”, “Hornpipe” and  “Whip Jamboree”

 

SECTION THREE - WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

‘He always thought of the sea as la mar, which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her.’: Ernest Hemingway

 

  1. Readings from Richard III (Shakespeare and Psalm 107 music from “Peter Grimes” (Benjamin Britten)
  2. Song “Ellen Vannin”
  3. Reading from “The Ancient Mariner” (Coleridge), music “Antartica Symphony” (Vaughan Williams)
  4. From “The Times” newspaper, April 15th & 16th, 1912
  5. Music “Salty Dog” (Procul Harem)
  6. From “The Wreck Of The Steamer LONDON”  (Wm. McGonnagle)
  7. Reading from “The Ancient Mariner” (Coleridge)
  8. From “117 Days Adrift”    (M. & M.Bailey)
  9. “The Lobster Quadrille” (Lewis Carrol)
  10. From  “Three Men in a Boat” (Jerome K. Jerome)
  11. Song “Shoals of Herring”
  12. From  “The Old Man And the Sea” (Ernest Hemingway)
  13. “The  Fish” (E. Bishop)
  14. Sea Shanties “Heave Away Me Johnnie”, “Johnnie’s Gone to Hilo”
  15. Music “Fairwell to Tawaithe” (Judy Collins)
  16. From “Under Milk Wood” (Dylan Thomas)

 

SECTION FOUR - THE GOD BENEATH THE SEA

‘The water is so cold; I am waiting and watching come to me.’:Anon

 

  1. Music “Neptune”, Planets Suite    (Holst)
  2. Readings from “The Dragon Slayer” (R. Sutcliffe,’), Music “Phaedra” (Tangerine, Dream)
  3. Song “Banks of Green Willow”
  4. Song “Ranter’s Wharf”
  5. Celtic Seal Poem (Alain Stivell)
  6. Song    “The Great Silkie”
  7. “Noah”, (Siegfried Sassoon)
  8. “When Jesus Was a Sailor” (Judy Collins)