Description
Experience the power and fragility of Sylvia Plath’s poems like never before as we celebrate her astonishing work with Dead Poets Live, starring acclaimed actor Denise Gough.
Plath was just 30 when she died and yet in her brief career she produced some of the greatest and most electrifying poetry of the 20th century. Her best-known poems, including ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, and ‘Tulips’, arrived in an extraordinary torrent of creativity unleashed in her final months, and were posthumously collected in Ariel.
60 years on, in Heptonstall – where Plath is buried and where she spent several months between 1956 and 1959 – Dead Poets Live retrace her exhilarating and nail-biting poetic journey as she raced towards the definitive voice of those final poems. Join Gough for a memorable evening, as she brings the tension and drama of those incredible poems to life.
About the Performer
Denise Gough
Denise Gough is an Irish actress. She has received a number of accolades for her work in theatre, including two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.
About the Other
Dead Poets Live
Dead Poets Live have gained a reputation for presenting poetry in vivid and meaningful ways, using context, analysis, dramatization, interaction and some of the country’s finest actors – Glenda Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Juliet Stevenson, Rory Kinnear, George MacKay, Toby Jones – to help communicate great poems. All proceeds from their shows go to the charity Safe Passage UK.
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