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DAVID FOX, the Canadian Theatre's national treasure is returning to the stage with Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A MUST SEE!
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER,
a major poem from 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction quickly turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem.
DAVID FOX,
Toronto stage, screen and radio actor since 1972.
TED JOHNS – Director
Ted Johns has worked mainly at Theatre Passe Muraille (over a dozen collectives with Paul Thompson), the Blyth Festival (Blyth’s most produced playwright) and Theatre New Brunswick where he helped launch Marshall Button’s phenomenally successful Lucien series.
Previous directing includes Fox in China (TPM) The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, (Blyth) Zero Hour, (TNB) The Melville Boys (Port Dover), and Lucien and Lucien’s Labour Lost (TNB) as well as various scene studies at George Brown College.
2017-10-22
Toronto: David Fox recites "The Rime of the Ancient Marriner" October 26-November 5