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Shackleton’s play with music – The Chorus at the Edge of the World
August 17, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Chorus at the Edge of the World :
A workshop reading of a play with live music recreating Ernest Shackleton’s and the crew of the Endurance’s incredible and inspiring journey.
Thursday, 17 August, 7 pm
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Ernest Shackleton was a hero of the Great age of Polar Exploration who stood apart from his peers for two reasons.
First, he paid more attention to having fun than he did to the perils of the ice. He wrote, “I feel the success of our work depends as much on the general attitude of the members to each other as on the work they individually have to do.” He picked is crew for the instruments they played and the jokes they told. No one expected him or his crew to return.
Second, despite the coldest temperatures in the world, a shipwreck, an attempted mutiny, starvation, an 800 mile journey through the roughest seas in the world in a twenty foot boat, and a feat of climbing that wouldn’t be repeated for fifty years, Shackleton brought every one of his crew home alive. Singing all the way. None of his peers could have done the same.
Sometimes inspiration looks like lunacy.
The Chorus at the Edge of the World is a play featuring live music: all acoustic, all from the catalogue of Chanteys, whaling songs and folk music that the Endurance crew would have used. In honor of Shackleton, we will make it fun.
-Richard Thieriot, Shackelton Enthusiast, Playwright and Actor, and Manship Artist
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A WORKSHOP READING WITH SCRIPTS.
Location: Directions and parking details will be sent upon registration.
Contact info@ManshipArtists.org or 978-290-8438 with your accessibility needs.
Casual attire. Event will be filmed.
This program is sponsored by The Prometheus Circle of the Manship Artists Residency.
