THE DOLPHIN'S BACK
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    • 2021 - Fulgens & Lucres
    • 2019 - The Misfortunes of Arthur
    • 2017 - The Woman in the Moon - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
    • 2015 - Samuel Daniel & John Danyel
    • 2014 - The Woman in the Moon - Rose Playhouse
    • 2014 - The Massacre at Paris
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THE DOLPHIN'S BACK

rescuing lost poets
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In Greek myth,
​Arion was a poet and musician,
who created wild and ecstatic songs in praise of Dionysius,
god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness
Songs that were the origin of Greek drama

Once,
returning home by sea,
Arion was kidnapped by pirates,

who threatened to throw him overboard

He begged to play his music one last time before his death,
​the pirates agreed, and Arion sang to Apollo, the god of poetry

Then they threw him overboard into the sea, but . . .
his music had attracted a school of dolphins

One of them rescued him,
and Arion was carried on the dolphin's back back to shore


A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
​ Act 2 Scene 1
OBERON
  My gentle Puck come hither – thou rememberest
  Since once I sat upon a promontory,
  And heard a Mermaid on a Dolphin's back,
  Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
  That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
  And certain star shot madly from their Spheres,
  To hear the Sea-maid's music?
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PUCK
I remember

​TWELFTH NIGHT
​ ​Act 1 Scene 2
SEA -CAPTAIN
​
 I saw your brother
  Most provident in peril, bind himself
  (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)
  To a strong Mast, that lived upon the sea – 
  Where like Arion on the Dolphin's back,
  I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves,
  So long as I could see.

VIOLA
For saying so, there's gold


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