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1967. As the Summer of Love wanes, Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet and self-appointed icon, descends on Europe, preaching a fusion of free love, curious chemicals and curiouser creeds. His very public goal: to make the Communist bloc cool. His personal obsession: to liberate an ageing fascist from the shame of the past. Ezra Pound, one-time inspiration to both T.S. Eliot and Benito Mussolini, awaits him in Venice. Reviled for his wartime and anti-Semitism, the octogenarian would rather greet death than a malodorous mystic. Yet the two men's encounter offers both the opportunity to transcend the absurdities of their dogmas, allowing Pound to achieve what his visitor terms an 'absolution'. Written to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Ginsberg's birth, Road Music is based on Ginsberg's own accounts of his meetings with Pound.

Cast/Performers

Lucy Fletcher (Martha), Cassy Sachar (Olga), James Taverner (The Troubadour), Adam Tuck (Ezra), Mark Wainwright (Allen)

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Tom Perrin, Alex Parsonage
Company: Cambridge University ADC
Director(s): Tom Perrin, Richard Gowan
Design: Alex Parsonage