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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
