Shivering More Than Timbers
Charles IsherwoodDecember 12, 2013: The formidable Irish actor Fiona Shaw is not encrusted with barnacles or dripping seaweed in portraying the crazed title character in the new stage presentation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the celebrated verse ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater. As she wanders up and down the aisles before the production begins, she is all but indistinguishable from audience members in her fleece sweatshirt, simple black pants and tennis shoes.
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