Dread Poets' Society

Overview

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!

Directed by Andy Wilson

Top cast

Benjamin Zephaniah

Self

Timothy Spall

Derek

Emma Fielding

Mary Shelley

Alan Cumming

Shelley

Alex Jennings

Byron

Dexter Fletcher

Keats

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