Ahead of a reading in Rome at Keats-Shelley House and a presentation at the British Institute in Florence, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Shelley’s ashes being interred, Loki Music presents ‘Shelley 200’.
Poet Jan Noble gives a unique performance of his mini, verse-drama at Garrick’s Temple, Hampton on Saturday 25th March at 7pm.
Music from the Romantic period will be provided by Michael Fields and William Summers, distinguished stalwarts of early music.
POST SCRIPT: Actor David Garrick may be considered an artistic reformer, gentrifying theatre, the antithesis of Shelley whose rebel spirit considered poetry “a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.” 25th March marks the day on which the poet was ‘sent down’ from Oxford for his dissenting essay on atheism. Audience members are encouraged to decide whether they will sit politely in their seats as Mr Garrick would have them or “rise like lions after slumber”
JAN NOBLE 