Dread Poets' Society

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!

• Benjamin ZephaniahWriter
• David StaffordWriter
• Andy WilsonDirector

• Benjamin ZephaniahSelf
• Timothy SpallDerek
• Emma FieldingMary Shelley
• Alan CummingShelley
• Alex JenningsByron
• Dexter FletcherKeats