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Dead Poets Live

The Man With Night Sweats

London

2–4 October 2024

7:30–9:00 PM

Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton's Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley

Dead Poets Live returns to Wilton’s Music Hall to stage the poetry of Thom Gunn.

2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Thom Gunn’s death. The Man with Night Sweats, to many readers Gunn’s finest and most moving collection, addresses the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and includes some of the most devastating elegies in English poetry. But The Man with Night Sweats is also, very specifically and lovingly, a vivid portrait of city life in San Francisco, the gay community of that time, and the friends and lovers who made up Gunn’s family, and who were taken by the disease.

The show will trace Gunn’s development from the rigorous discipline of his beginnings, through the LSD-loosened free verse of the 60s and early 70s to the humane and personal achievement of The Man with Night Sweats.

Thom Gunn will be played by Rupert Everett.

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