Poetry Beast!

London, 18 December 1998

The fabulous line up of poets was:

John Hegley
Adrian Mitchell
Roger McGough
John Agard

This benefit was held in the same period as The Wolf Road production at the Gate, and was followed by a storytelling benefit ‘The Mythic Tale Spinners’ a week later.

The Mythic Tale Spinners

9 January 1999
Gate Theatre

One after the other these magnificent actors told or read fairy tales and poems to an enraptured audience.

Performers included:
Jim Broadbent
Paola Dionisotti
Roger Lloyd Pack
Harriet Walter
Susan Wooldridge
Juliet Stevenson
Simon Callow
Ralph Steadman (whose recorded voice in a pitch black theatre recited his poem The Beast Bites Back).