Bloody Poetry

Bloody Poetry is a 1984 play by

The play had its roots in Brenton's involvement with the small touring company

The play takes as its epigraph a comment of Richard Holmes's, “Shelley's life seems more a haunting than a history.”

Stage history

Bloody Poetry was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre Leicester on 1 October 1984 in a production that later played at the Hampstead Theatre. The director was Roland Rees and the cast was:

The play had its west coast premiere in 1991 at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, under the direction of Keith Fowler, drawing excellent critical reception and winning the Dramalogue award for “Outstanding Direction.”

Nightingale Theatre produced the play in the summer of 1994 at The Union Chapel, Islington, London. Kate Godfrey (Claire Clairmont), Jane Gooderham ( Harriet Westbrook), Melee Hutton (Mary Shelley), Mark Norton ( Percy Bysshe Shelley) Peter Quilter (George Byron). with Cordelia Monsey directing.

The play played at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987 in a production directed by Lynne Meadow^[3] and was revived in 1988 at the Royal Court Theatre and in 2007 at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.^[4]

The play was staged by emerging company Invulnerable Nothings at The Brooklyn Art Library in 2016.

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External links

• Bloody Poetry at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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