Bloody Poetry
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Times : 15:30 - 17:30 19:30 - 21:30
Jermyn Street Theatre, 16b Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, SW1Y 6ST
Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry, directed this month by Tom Littler at the Jermyn Theatre, is an emotional and introspective story, timely in its themes of radicalism and desire for reform. However, a lack of chemistry between the characters and a lack of context to separate 19th century radicalism from our modern version make it difficult to connect emotionally with this particular production.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife by name (though not by law) Mary, and her step-sister Claire flee from England, leaving establishment, repression, Percy’s legal wife and widespread scandal behind them. The trio position themselves to intercept Lord Byron on his travels so that Bysshe and Byron, two radical exiled poets, might meet....
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