Hopkins - T0751139647 | |
| 5 Mar 24 to 7 Mar 24 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L01822535744 |
The Haunter - Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy and Florence - T913884801In 1912, Thomas Hardy was 72 and generally recognised as the pre-eminent English novelist of his time. His reputation as a poet - various, prolific, uncategorisable - was less certain. But the unexpected death of his wife of nearly forty years, Emma, released a flood of poems: nostalgic, bitter, self-recriminatory or regretful verse that, taken together, constitute one of the most complex explorations of love and bereavement English poetry has. All of which came as an unwelcome surprise to Florence, the second Mrs Hardy... Working with the poet Mark Ford, whose book on these poems, ‘Woman Much Missed', is published by OUP this July, Dead Poets Live return to Wilton's this November with a sort of ghost story told via some of the most haunting elegies ever written. | |
| 23 Nov 23 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L1272606848 |
Shakespeare - T1282685231Shakespeare is both the greatest and most underrated poet in the English language. Underrated yet apparently overrated - a word for which Shakespeare has himself to blame. Coleridge scoffed at the thought of measuring Shakespeare against anyone but Shakespeare. Today, the more scholars try to compute his genius, the more laughable it seems. He is so ubiquitous that it is hard to see him for what he was: the devoted last-born child of the Middle Ages, the father of modernity, and yet unparalleled and unsurpassed. His poetry is unavoidable but inimitable, perpetually accessible - another Shakespearean coinage - yet also increasingly rich, almost to the point of obscurity. Still, it continues to beguile - (there's another) - and bedazzle - (and another). He remains - (one cannot but quote him) - the ‘be-all and the end-all' of English poetry: at once the enchanter and the ruin of generations of poets and critics. Drawing on the poems and plays, and in the company of great performers, we hope to persuade you that Shakespeare was much greater than you had even imagined. | |
| 11 Jun 23 | The Coronet, Inner London :: V1163069430 listing details L01318201178 |
He Do the Police in Different Voices - T4129373202022 marks the centenary of one of the greatest achievements of literary Modernism, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Using the facsimile edition of the poem edited by Eliot's widow Valerie as a guide, He Do The Police In Different Voices (the poem's original title) tells the story of a masterpiece assembled by three people: Eliot, Ezra Pound and Eliot's first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. Pound's excisions and Vivienne's suggestions represent a major contribution to the poem's final form, and the show will explore the fascinating process of alteration and refinement, using it to clarify and explain a poem - which will be performed in full - too often regarded as obscure. But this is also the story of three people - one the maker of the poem, another its editor, the third its guiding spirit - all haunted, to various degrees, by mental illness. Dead Poets Live's new production tells their story alongside that of The Waste Land - who they were and what happened to them afterwards. | |
| 20 Oct 22 to 22 Oct 22 | The Coronet, Inner London :: V1163069430 listing details L84290915 |
T S Eliot & Marie Lloyd - T0170266259A very funny and moving story of the unlikely relationship between the work of two unhappy people and great artists, Marie Lloyd and T. S. Eliot. Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight! is a sort-of-musical that marks the centenary of Marie Lloyd's death and The Waste Land's birth. | |
| 11 Apr 22 to 12 Apr 22 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L1502553756 |
T495776380Another celebration of the spoken word, also returns to Wilton's, staging the poetry of the greats with an evening of great performers and surprises. | |
| 8 Jul 19 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L0676393913 |
Nonsense: A Youthful Person's Guide to Poetry - T01486581889With their dramatised readings of classic poetry attracting some of our leading actors (such as Charlotte Rampling, Miranda Richardson, Patrick Kennedy, and Tom Hiddleston), Dead Poets Live has established a loyal following for their memorable events. On April Fool's Day they return to Print Room at the Coronet with a show for the young and the young-at-heart, and for anyone who claims not to understand poetry: a brief history of Nonsense. A history, in fact, as old as poetry, inseparable from our earliest attempts at sense and our instinctive delight in the sounds we make. There is no poetry purer than Nonsense ? except that it's nonsense ? and to try to make sense of Nonsense is in a sense to introduce all poetry. | |
| 1 Apr 19 | The Coronet, Inner London :: V1163069430 listing details L666323510 |
Bob Dylan: The Words of the Songs - T408521775Performers present Dylan's lyrics and poetry without the backing of music, exposing fresh aspects and rhythms, and giving us a chance to hear the songs from a different point of view. All proceeds of the evening go to charity.Performer Toby Jones. Performer Sheila Atim. Performer Robert Sheehan. | |
| 5 Nov 18 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L01340647514 |
T979574886Performer Charlotte Rampling. Performer Lambert Wilson. | |
| 29 Apr 18 | The Coronet, Inner London :: V1163069430 listing details L1994194457 |
T311278091Performer Glenda Jackson. | |
| 24 Sep 17 | The Coronet, Inner London :: V1163069430 listing details L1175501781 |
