Dread Poets' Society

Andy Wilson
1992-09-23


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30 min

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!

Cast

Name Character Team
Benjamin Zephaniah Self Unowned
Timothy Spall Derek Unowned
Emma Fielding Mary Shelley Unowned
Alan Cumming Shelley Unowned
Alex Jennings Byron Unowned
Dexter Fletcher Keats Unowned