Full Length, Drama / 3m, 2f / Bare stage
This fascinating drama, staged to acclaim in London and New
York, has in its cast of characters Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Goodwin. The play is about
radicalism artistic, political and more. Taking place in Italy, it
concerns the characters' various ideas about radical politics and
free love. Along the way, a number of serious questions are raised,
not the least of which is why fervent radicals seem so often to be
done in by their reprehensible characters. At the end of the play
Byron attends the cremation of Shelley on the beach at Viareggio
and delivers a stunning ovation over the pyre: "Burn him. Burn us
all. A great big bloody beautiful fire."
"Radicalism, artistic defiance, an intellectual rage. These are
the virtues celebrated in this extraordinary dream play which
begins, as it ends, on a foreign shore." London Financial
Times.
"A phantasmagoric play. . . . Brenton is celebrating the idea
of the committed artist who seeks to stir and provoke sullen,
defeated, bourgeois England. At the same time with clear eyed
honesty, he shows how difficult it is to upset the moral order."
London Guardian.
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