Dead Poets Live
Bob Dylan: The Words of the Songs
London
Dead Poets Live moved to Wilton’s Music Hall.
Actors and performers read Bob Dylan. Dead Poets Live has established a reputation for unique evenings of poetry, and Bob Dylan: The Words of the Songs will be no exception. Using Dylan’s own prose, public statements and interviews and others’ critical perspectives to knit the evening together, the show will 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.
Performers

A star of stage and screen, a Golden Globe and Bafta nominee, returning to Dead Poets Live after his appearance in last year’s Hallowe’en show, Toby Jones made his breakthrough as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous. Film appearances has since included The Mist, W., Frost/Nixon, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Dad’s Army. Television credits include Capital, Sherlock and Titanic. As well as the new series of Detectorists, last year’s work included the voice of Owl in Christopher Robin, Michael Haneke’s Happy End and the most recent Jurassic Park.

Sheila Atim‘s recent theatre credits include Girl From the North Country (Old Vic and Noël Coward Theatre, for which she was awarded the 2018 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical), Babette’s Feast (The Print Room), The Tempest, Henry IV and Julius Ceasar as part of the Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse), Hopelessly Devoted (Paines Plough) and Les Blancs (National Theatre). Other theatre credits include Volpone, Love’s Sacrifice, The Jew of Malta (RSC), Black Lives Black Words – The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre), Rachel (Finborough Theatre) and Klook’s Last Stand (Park Theatre). Sheila’s television credits include I Live With Models and the upcoming second series of Harlots.

Robert Sheehan made his acting debut in Aisling Walsh’s acclaimed feature film Song for A Raggy Boy. Since then, features include Ghostwood, Summer of the Flying Saucer, Season of the Witch, Cherrybomb, Killing Bono, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, The Road Within, Anita B, The Messenger, Moonwalkers, Jet Trash, Geostorm, Bad Samaritan, Three Summers, Mute and the upcoming Mortal Engines. Television includes Foreign Exchange, Young Blades, Bel’s Boys, Bittersweet, all three films in the BAFTA award winning Red Riding trilogy, multi IFTA award winning Love Hate (for which he was twice nominated for Best Actor), BAFTA award winning Misfits (for which he was also BAFTA nominated for Best Supporting Actor), The Borrowers, Me and Mrs Jones, The Accused, Fortitude, Genius, The Umbrella Academy. On stage he has appeared at the Old Vic Theatre in the title role in The Playboy of the Western World, directed by John Crowley, and as Richard III in The Wars of the Roses, directed by Trevor Nunn. Most recently, he appeared as the younger Yeats in Dead Poets Live’s Three Ages of Yeats at the Print Room.
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