Romantics, Mystics & Revolutionaries

THE SHOW

The Romantic movement was an act of defiance against industry and the mechanisation of the soul. What do their dreams of renewal offer our age of despair?

This is a true story of riot, anti-slavery, mysticism and psychedelics; told through the lives of two poet renegades - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Part storytelling stage-show, part performance lecture, Pete unfurls a journey of music, comedy and lyricism in a thrilling collision of scholarship and live entertainment.

Expect reverence, resistance and enchantment from a time of slavery and war.

ABOUT PETE

Pete (the Temp) Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight and the World Service.

“Poetry’s answer to Mark Thomas.” — Chortle, UK Comedy Guide

“Challenging, inspiring and amusing.” — The Ecologist

“Fresh, empowering and fun.” — Shambala Festival

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