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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In it, the Mariner delays a young man on his way to a wedding in order to share a bizarre story of a long sea voyage. The Wedding Guest is mesmerized, then terrified by what he hears. But what is the meaning of Coleridge's potent and perplexing poem, with its archaic language, judgmental Christianity, hellish scenery, and deranged but irresistible narrative drive? In this re-telling by the Barking Fish Project (Morgan, Sarah, and Jamie Hamilton), the Mariner’s Rime will be interpreted through shadow play--an Asian style of storytelling, wherein flat images are manipulated by puppeteers between a bright light and a translucent screen, on the other side of which sits the audience.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St, Wheeling, WV 26003-3671, United States,Wheeling, West Virginia