In Performance: Fiona Shaw of 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' This week's In Performance video is with Fiona Shaw, in an excerpt from a new staged reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." This scene features the passage that birthed the expression "albatross around your neck." The show, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, continues through Dec. 22 at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Recent videos in this series include Peter Bradbury as Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol," at the Theater at St. Clement's, and four scenes from Richard Nelson's Apple Family cycle of plays at the Public Theater. Coming soon: Kyle Riabko singing an arrangement of numbers from "What's It All About?