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DEAD POETS LIVE: THE DEATH OF ARTHUR

DEAD POETS LIVE: THE DEATH

OF ARTHUR

‘AN OCCASIONAL, BUT UNMISSABLE, ONGOING SERIES OF PLAYS’

Dead Poets Live have established a cult following at The Coronet Theatre for their dramatised readings of classic poetry, attracting some of Britain’s finest actors including Rory Kinnear,Tamsin Greig, Lindsay Duncan, Denise Gough and Tom Hiddleston. All proceeds from their evenings go to the charity Safe Passage Dead Poets Live is devised and supported by The TS Eliot Foundation.

Alfred Tennyson was twenty-four when he heard the news that Arthur Hallam had died, suddenly, on 15 September 1833 The news produced a surge of elegy: among the many poems Tennyson drafted that autumn were Tithonus, Ulysses, and the earliest sections of a sequence, dedicated to Hallam, that kept on growing and changing until finally, after seventeen years, when Tennyson was forty, it was published, anonymously, as In Memoriam. It became an instant classic, ran to many editions, made Tennyson’s name, and earned him the position of Poet Laureate. But twenty years and twenty editions later he was still tinkering: in 1870, aged 61, he added a new section

This Christmas Dead Poets Live return to The Coronet Theatre with a new version of In M i t t it t i th

Tom Mothersdale

Alfred Tennyson

Since graduating from Drama School, Tom has been working constantly across stage and screen Tom is soon to appear in his first feature film Black Noise, directed by Simon Blake

In television, he has most recently been seen in Channel 4’s Brian & Maggie, and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light He’s also recently featured in Marco Kreuzpaintner’s Netflix series Bodies, J Blakeson’s series Culprits for Disney+, Amazon’s Alex Rider and War of the Worlds S2 for Fox. Other television credits include Chris Murray’s series Van der Valk, his recurring role in USA Network’s Treadstone as well as Sky’s second series of A Discovery of Witches. Tom also features in Hanna, Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams – The Hood Maker and King Charles III and Bad Robot’s cult film Overlord produced by J J Abrams and directed by Julius Avery

In theatre,Tom most recently starred in the critically acclaimed adaptation of Measure for Measure at the RSC. Prior to this, he featured in PJ Harvey musical London Tide at the National Theatre, and Love and Other Acts of Violence at the Donmar. He led Simon Stephens’ Blue Water and Cold and Fresh, part of the Out West triple bill of new plays at the Lyric Hammersmith

This was Tom’s third time working with Simon, having previously collaborated with him on A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky and The Cherry Orchard at The Young Vic directed by Katie Mitchell, for which he received an Ian Charleson award.Tom played Richard III for Headlong, and starred in Caryl Churchil’s plays, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. at The Royal Court. Other credits include The Woods at The Royal Court, Dealing With Clair written by Martin Crimp at the Orange Tree Theatre, Boys and The Glass Menagerie for Headlong, John at the National Theatre written by Annie Baker and directed by James Macdonald, Oil at the Almeida Theatre and Cleansed directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre.

Tom was listed as one of the Top 5 young actors to watch in 2019 in The Sunday Times Culture Magazine.

Honor Swinton Byrne

Emily Tennyson

Honor Swinton Byrne made her acclaimed debut as Julie in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and its sequel She is currently filming War for Sky/HBO and stars as Princess Beatrice in Amazon’s A Very Royal Scandal. She recently wrapped David Mackenzie’s Fuze Other credits include Drift opposite Cynthia Erivo and Netflix’s The Crown

On screen, Shubham is set to star in acclaimed Indian director Dibakar Banerjee’s English-language debut, an adaptation of Keith Gesson’s novel A Terrible Country. He’s recently wrapped the Apple TV+ show Star City, opposite Rhys Ifans and Anna Maxwell Martin, as well as a lead role on the feature film Cliffhanger starring opposite Lily James and Pierce Brosnan He will soon be seen in Gurinder Chadha’s new feature Christmas Karma opposite Hugh Bonneville and Eva Longoria, and a lead role on a Luc Besson feature Hell In Paradise.

Shubham played one of the leads in Apple TV’s Shantaram (a 12-episode series based on the acclaimed book), starring opposite Charlie Hunnam. Other leading credits include the BBC series A Suitable Boy (directed by Oscar winner Mira Nair), Netflix’s Criminal, where he is a series regular, and the award-winning and record-breaking BBC/Netflix series Bodyguard.

Shubham Saraf

Edward Fitzgerald

On stage, Shubham starred opposite Matt Smith in Thomas Ostermeier’s An Enemy Of The People in the West End last year. In 2022 he played the lead role in The Father and the Assassin in the Olivier at the National Theatre to huge critical acclaim. Reviews have described him as giving a ‘hilarious, tragic, titanic tour de force performance’, and he was nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. In 2021 he was Benvolio, opposite Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley, in the production of Romeo and Juliet filmed at the National Theatre.

Marli Siu

Emily Sellwood

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar/St Ann’s Warehouse); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre); Misalliance (Orange Tree); Little Red and the Wolf (Dundee Rep and Noisemaker); Much Ado About Nothing and The Witness for the Prosecution (Dundee Rep)

Television includes: Twenty Twenty Six; Everything I Know About Love; Alex Rider; The Irregulars; Grantchester and Still Game.

Film includes: Black Church Bay; Wicker; Apartment 7A; Our Ladies; Run and Anna and the Apocalypse

Edward Bluemel

Edmund Lushington

Edward Bluemel trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and has since built a dynamic career across film, television, and theatre.

He recently starred in Amazon Prime’s My Lady Jane, alongside Emily Bader, Dominic Cooper, and Rob Brydon, and played Levi in the BBC’s breakout comedy-drama We Might Regret This, S1&2, created by Kyla Harris and Lee Getty

Upcoming, he appears in Netflix’s The Seven Dials Mystery, opposite Mia McKenna-Bruce, Martin Freeman, and Helena Bonham Carter.

On film, he featured in Persuasion, based on the Jane Austen novel, with Dakota Johnson and Richard E. Grant, and in Access All Areas opposite Ella Purnell and Georgie Henley.

His stage credits include lead roles in Daniel Evans’ RSC production of Born With Teeth at the Wyndham’s Theatre starring opposite Ncuti Gatwa,Trevor Nunn’s Love In Idleness (West End) and Vicky Jones’ Touch at Soho Theatre, where he was praised for his presence and versatility.