In September 2022 I collaborated for the first time with Mark Knightley, directing 1797: The Mariner's Revenge at the Old Royal Naval College for HistoryRiot, supported by Tramshed and ACE.

 

It’s 1797 and Admiral Nelson has returned to England and dines in the grand rooms of Admiral’s House at Greenwich Hospital.  Upstairs in the dark attic rooms, an injured mariner and a mercurial albatross plot revenge.

 

The show was a site-specific promenade piece that also included chorus members from REACH, a group of SEND young adults from Tramshed in Woolwich.

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This unique site-specific show, which moves through the upper rooms of Admiral’s House in the Old Royal Naval College, fuses physical theatre, puppetry and booming sea shanties to immerse the audience in a salty struggle for revenge.

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“★★★★★ Half haunting folk horror seance, half gory nightmare, 1797 – The Mariner’s Revenge is spiked with surreal questions of what sanity is and if trauma can ever be overcome.” Sadie takes the Stage, 1797: The Mariner’s Revenge, HistoryRiot, 2022

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Photos by Hannah Anketell