Described as “poetry’s answer to Mark Thomas” by the Chortle and “challenging, inspiring and amusing” by The Ecologist, this fresh and empowering true story ‘Romantics, Mystics and Revolutionaires’ can be seen on the Torch Theatre stage this November. 

The Romantic movement was an act of defiance against industry and the mechanisation of the soul. What do their dreams of renewal offer our age of despair? This story of riot, anti-slavery, mysticism and psychedelics; told through the lives of two poet renegades - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Part storytelling stage-show, part performance lecture, Pete (the Temp) Bearder unfolds a journey of music, comedy and lyricism in a thrilling collision of scholarship and live entertainment.

Pete is an award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight and the World Service. He is a former Hammer & Tongue UK Poetry Slam champion and has performed in over fifteen countries with organisations that include The British Council. His last stage show Homer to Hip Hop appeared over sixty times around the UK.

Romantics, Mystics and Revolutionaries can be seen at the Torch Theatre on Wednesday 11 November at 7.30pm. Age Guidance: 16+. Expect reverence, resistance and enchantment from a time of slavery and war. Ticket prices: £12.50 / £9 concenssions. Phone the Box Office on 01646 695267 / visit torchtheatre.co.uk or click here.