Maiden Mother Mage
Maiden Mother Mage is a poetic reimagining of 6th century Lothian princess Thaney (St Teneu). It's a site-specific performance by actors, with live music, at Culross Abbey from 17th to 19th July.
About Maiden Mother Mage
| 17th Jul 2025 to 19th Jul 2025 | |
| 7pm (17th, 18th, 19th) / 2pm (19th only) | |
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Culross Abbey Culross Abbey Kirk Street, Culross KY12 8JD |
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| £7 - £15 | |
| Visit the event website here | |
| Facebook information can be found here | |
A site-specific performance by actors, with live original score - reimagining Thaney, later known as St Teneu / Tenew, or St Enoch of Glasgow. Supported by Creative Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland.
Written & directed by Rebecca Sharp. Score by Alex South. Artwork by Frances Law. Performed by Israela Efomi, Taylor Dyson, Fletcher Mathers, and Alex South. Costume by Jessica Brettle. BSL interpretation (19th July) by Lisa Li.
Thaney was a 6th century Brittonic princess, daughter of Leudonis or King Lot at Traprain Law in the Kingdom of Gododdin. She holds many stories, connecting her to pagan roots, and to Arthurian legend - but never in her own words. Her fabled journeys took her from the Lothians to Glasgow, via Culross in Fife.
According to legend, Thaney was assaulted aged seventeen and, discovering she was pregnant, was thrown from Traprain Law as punishment, either by her father or upon his orders. She survived the fall to be punished a second time (some say was accused of witchcraft), placed in an oarless boat and set into the Firth of Forth at Aberlady Bay. She again survived to wash ashore at Culross, where she was taken in by St Serf, founder of an early church (later the site of Culross Abbey). There she had her son, Kentigern / Mungo, who would go on to found the city of Glasgow.
There have been varying claims to her story over the centuries: Thaney enters myth, both human being and story-bearer. Fact grows indiscernible from fiction, and Thaney holds the space between.
We wonder what role she would choose for herself now, as she rises during times of violence and abuses of power. We meet her here in triple form: as MAIDEN (exiled girl of seventeen), MOTHER (of Mungo and other creations), and MAGE (shaman, abbess, Cailleach). Giving voice to the outcast and voiceless, Thaney shows us how we might repair divisions that were cast upon us all so long ago.
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