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| Photo: Fiona Shaw, courtesy of Phyllida Lloyd |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner runs at BAM through December 22. Context is everything, so get even closer to Coleridge's famous ill-fated ocean voyage, the amazing Fiona Shaw, and more with this curated selection of articles, videos, and original blog pieces related to the show. For those of you who've already seen it, help us keep the conversation going by telling us what you thought below.
From BAM
Video
Excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (BAM Blog)
Watch and listen to this animated reading of part of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, assembled from submissions to our Record Your Rime project.
Miscellany
Record Your Rime: A BAM Poetry Project (BAM Blog)
Add your reading of Rime to our exciting crowd-sourcing project.
Video
Fiona Shaw Reads Eliot, Yeats, and Patti Smith (BAM Blog)
Shaw lends her Irish brogue to The Waste Land and other poems.
Article
Are You As Smart As A High Schooler?: Rime Edition (BAM Blog)
Ponder these Rime-related questions, taken from our Rime of the Ancient Mariner study guide.
Around the Web
From BAM
Video
Excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (BAM Blog)
Watch and listen to this animated reading of part of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, assembled from submissions to our Record Your Rime project.
Miscellany
Record Your Rime: A BAM Poetry Project (BAM Blog)
Add your reading of Rime to our exciting crowd-sourcing project.
Fiona Shaw Reads Eliot, Yeats, and Patti Smith (BAM Blog)
Shaw lends her Irish brogue to The Waste Land and other poems.
Article
Are You As Smart As A High Schooler?: Rime Edition (BAM Blog)
Ponder these Rime-related questions, taken from our Rime of the Ancient Mariner study guide.
Around the Web
Video
In Performance: Fiona Shaw of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(The New York Times)
Shaw recites the pivotal moment of Coleridge's poem.
Audio
Fiona Shaw on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(BBC.co.uk)
Shaw wanted something that would help her jogging—and ended up memorizing a 626-line poem.
Article
“Fiona Shaw: I’m Not Frightened of Hard Words” (The Guardian)
“Poetry is the formal way of expressing what's really unsayable," Shaw says.
Interview
Portrait of the Artist: Fiona Shaw (The Guardian)
Fiona Shaw in brief: philosopher-poet, frustrated painter, lover of The Sound of Music.
Biography
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poets.org)
The poet dreamed of setting up a commune on the banks of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.
Worthwhile Words
Fiona Shaw:
So what's your verdict? Thoughts on bird-related punishments on the high seas? Fiona Shaw's energetic performance? Public recitations of poetry in the modern age? Once you've seen the show, tell us what you thought in the comments below.
In Performance: Fiona Shaw of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(The New York Times)
Shaw recites the pivotal moment of Coleridge's poem.
Audio
Fiona Shaw on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(BBC.co.uk)
Shaw wanted something that would help her jogging—and ended up memorizing a 626-line poem.
Article
“Fiona Shaw: I’m Not Frightened of Hard Words” (The Guardian)
“Poetry is the formal way of expressing what's really unsayable," Shaw says.
Interview
Portrait of the Artist: Fiona Shaw (The Guardian)
Fiona Shaw in brief: philosopher-poet, frustrated painter, lover of The Sound of Music.
Biography
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poets.org)
The poet dreamed of setting up a commune on the banks of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.
Reading
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Bartleby.com)
Revel in Coleridge’s rhymes before Fiona Shaw takes the stage.
Fiona Shaw:
I'm not at all frightened of hard words, I just get excited by them. That's not an intellectual thing – we live in such an anti-intellectual age, I've got to say that. […] It's much more about my terror that I'm not in touch enough with feeling—and that poems put me in touch with feelings I might not otherwise get a chance, in this short life, to feel.
Now Your Turn...
So what's your verdict? Thoughts on bird-related punishments on the high seas? Fiona Shaw's energetic performance? Public recitations of poetry in the modern age? Once you've seen the show, tell us what you thought in the comments below.