Download bright star – keats` letters and poems

9 February 2017
BRIGHT STAR – KEATS’ LETTERS AND POEMS
Thursday 2 March, 6.30 – 7.30pm, Cottesloe Room at the National Theatre
Leading poetry and prose performer Ruth Rosen reads some of the great odes and poems written
by the literary genius, including extracts from John Keats’ letters to family and friends, and love
letters to Fanny Brawne at the National Theatre on 2 March.
Rosen, a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, tells the extraordinary and inspiring
story of the young poet completely through his own words – his letters and his poetry. Keats died
of tuberculosis at the age of 25 but in the few years before that, produced some of the best-loved
poetry in the English language, including his famous odes and narrative poems such as La Belle
Dame Sans Merci. He attracted little attention in his lifetime and was much vilified, but his work
was beginning to be recognised by the latter half of the 19th century.
Rosen’s performances of literary works by writers such as Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë and
James Joyce have brought critical acclaim and she has appeared at many national and
international festivals and theatres. She has given performances with writers such as Harold
Pinter, DM Thomas and Michael Holroyd.
‘An inspired theatrical performance of great power and beauty . . . in such tones that all sense of
time and space is utterly lost. The evening undoubtedly belongs to Rosen.’ Time Out
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