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UPCOMING EVENT
7–8 December 2024

Dead Poets Live

Onlie Begetter

London
The Coronet Theatre
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Past Events
Autumn Journal
Éanna Hardwicke
Returning to The Coronet, by popular demand, BAFTA-nominated Éanna Hardwicke reads Louis MacNeice in Dead Poets Live‘s staging of Autumn Journal.
The Man With Night Sweats
Dead Poets Live returns to Wilton’s Music Hall to stage the poetry of Thom Gunn.
The Haunter
Dead Poets Live returned to The Coronet Theatre to reprise their sell-out show about Thomas Hardy.
Hopkins
Joshua James
Peter McDonald
Dead Poets Live returned to Wilton’s Music Hall for the story of Gerard Manley Hopkins, played by Joshua James, as told by his best friend, Robert Bridges, played by Peter McDonald.
Autumn Journal
Éanna Hardwicke
Dead Poets Live are delighted to present Autumn Journal, Louis MacNeice’s thrillingly intimate and powerful dramatic monologue. Featuring Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment; Normal People).
Sylvia Plath
Denise Gough
Two-time Olivier Award winner Denise Gough returned to The Coronet, where Dead Poets Live‘s exploration of the poetry of Sylvia Plath premiered in 2018.
If This Be Magic
Rory Kinnear
Dead Poets Live returned to the Coronet Theatre with Tamsin Greig and Rory Kinnear to celebrate the life and work of William Shakespeare.
Sylvia Plath
Denise Gough
The Gate Theatre welcomed Dead Poets Live and two-time Olivier Award winner Denise Gough – ‘a stellar performance’ (Times Literary Supplement) – as part of its Gatecrashes strand.
He Do the Police in Different Voices
In the centenary of The Waste Land, Dead Poets Live returns to The Coronet Theatre for three nights to tell the story of how that masterpiece of literary modernism was made. Starring Lindsay Duncan.
Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight!
Jenna Russell
Luke Thallon
Tom Hanson
Dead Poets Live returned to Wilton’s for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic to mark two centenaries: the birth of The Waste Land and the death of Marie Lloyd.
Yes, We Are Going to Suffer
Rory Kinnear
Freddie Fox
Toby Jones
Dead Poets Live went live for the first time since the pandemic.
Stevie Smith: Black March
Juliet Stevenson
Filmed at the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, watch Olivier award-winning actress Juliet Stevenson read one of the most original poets of the 20th century, Stevie Smith. Watch the full film here.
Emily Dickinson
Monica Dolan
Dead Poets Live returned to The Coronet Theatre.
Eugene Onegin
Angus Wright
Mark Tandy
James Frecheville
Anna Popplewell
Joel MacCormack
For Christmas 2019, Dead Poets Live returned to The Coronet with their own version of the immortal Eugene Onegin.
Hannah Sullivan
Dead Poets Live were back again at The Coronet Theatre for two nights to present their second living poet, winner of the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize: Hannah Sullivan.
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
Juliet Stevenson
Patsy Ferran
Dead Poets Live returned to the Coronet Theatre for Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop, with Juliet Stevenson as Moore and Patsy Ferran as Bishop.
Frost and Thomas
Rory Kinnear
Toby Jones
Dead Poets Live returned to Wiltons after their sell-out Bob Dylan show to revive its most moving show: the story of Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, with Rory Kinnear in the role of Thomas and Nat Segnit replacing Toby Jones in the role of Frost.
Nonsense
On April Fool’s Day Dead Poets Live 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.
The Broken Word
Tom Hiddleston
George MacKay
Yasmin Paige
Faaiz Mbelizi
Toby Jones
Dead Poets Live were delighted to return The Print Room with The Broken Word, a great modern poem by Adam Foulds, featuring Tom Hiddleston, George MacKay, Yasmin Paige, Faaiz Mbelizi and Toby Jones.
Bob Dylan: The Words of the Songs
Toby Jones
Sheila Atim
Robert Sheehan
Dead Poets Live moved to Wilton’s Music Hall.
Three Ages of Yeats
Barry McGovern
Robert Sheehan
John Lynch
On the back of six sellout shows, Dead Poets Live returned to the Print Room with ‘Three Ages of Yeats’, starring Barry McGovern, John Lynch and Robert Sheehan.
Paris, Eliot and Paris: A Poem
Charlotte Rampling
Lambert Wilson
Dead Poets Live returned to the Print Room after five sellout shows.
Bishop and Lowell
Miranda Richardson
Stanley Townsend
Dead Poets Live returned to The Print Room with two giants of the American mid-century: Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
Byron and Shelley
Jason Isaacs
Freddie Fox
Following three sell-out shows, Dead Poets Live returned to the Print Room with two icons of English poetry: Byron and Shelley.
Stevie Smith
Glenda Jackson
Having sold out its first two events, Dead Poets Live returned to The Print Room with Glenda Jackson as Stevie Smith.
Hallowe’en
Tara Fitzgerald
Toby Jones
Sophie Thompson
Adrian Dunbar
With a cast featuring Adrian Dunbar, Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Jones and Sophie Thompson. For adults and courageous children.