The Fallen Elm - An Audience with John Clare

Toby Jones plays John Clare, the ‘peasant poet’, in a musical and literary celebration of Clare's life

After two hundred years of scrutiny of his life and work, John Clare speaks his mind. Acclaimed writer Stephen Plaice and composer Julian Philips combine forces to create an intimate and deeply moving portrait of the poet that celebrates the extraordinary power and fertility of his work and brings us closer to the man who loved the limelight, yet longed to return to the chair by the fire in his Northamptonshire home.