Bloody Poetry
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 10, 2001
Closed Oct 28, 2001
Opened Oct 10, 2001
Closed Oct 28, 2001
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Synapse Theatre Company presents Bloody Poetry, Howard Brenton's 1984 play about the intertwined lives of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley.
Wednesdays are pay what you wish.
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In Howard Brenton's new play Bloody Poetry, two men meet on the beach of Lake Geneva, and legend is made. Lord Byron is a loud and flamboyant drunk; Percy Bysshe Shelley is slender, sickly, and passionate. They are introduced via a shared mistress, Claire. Along with writer Mary Godwin, these four form a ménage a quatre in the summer of 1816.
Byron and Shelley are remembered as men who lived and loved freely; their libertarian way of life was scandalous to conservative England. Though Shelley wasn't the dashing figure that Byron was, he was consumed by an idealistic desire to see a world where men and women needn't worry about social obligations and "outdated" institutions such[...]