Open Theatre Mousehole
(Words written about Jane Askey’s artwork ‘Mousehole In Shadow’…)
Footlights illuminate the harbour stage,
Into which an apron of tide slips beneath the baulks:
Turquoise across pale orange,
Hunting down vessels, lying like fallen kites on strings,
A listing flotilla of redundant hulks…
Harbour arms curl protective arms at stage rear,
Around bichrome, contrasting, sunlit hues:
Sea across damp sand,
Screening it from a dark ocean and a troubled, turbulent sky,
Stormy and charcoal like a spreading bruise…
An audience of dark, silhouetted buildings lurks
Upon a darkened, shaded terrace, in thrall
Of the production, the natural phenomenon,
In reverence, in awe, from circle to stall…
Pete Ray
March 2019
A lovely painting by Jane Askey of Mousehole…
Looks lit like a theatrical stage, watched by an audience of buildings in shade…
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