Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Yasmin Paige
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Dead Poets Live - The Broken Word
Dead Poets Live are delighted to return to Print Room at the Coronet with The Broken Word by Adam Foulds featuring Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones and Yasmin Paige.
Adam Foulds is not a dead poet. He is, however, the author of one of the finest long verse narratives of the last quarter century. The Broken Word (winner of the 2008 Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award) is the story of a young man who returns to his family farm in Kenya before going up to Oxford and finds himself caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion – and in its brutal suppression.
The poem addresses terror, violence and spiritual disgrace with a propulsive narrative economy that recalls Homer or classical drama, but it is also lyrical, domestic, touching and precise. It’s an overwhelming experience: compassionate, unsettling and a masterfully clear-eyed examination of our colonial legacy. Dead Poets Live’s setting is a response to the poem’s inherent drama, and a one-off theatrical event.
All proceeds go to Safe Passage.
Toby Jones
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The Coronet Theatre
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The Coronet Theatre
- Disabled Booking:
- 020 3642 6606
See all events at The Coronet Theatre