Overview

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!

Cast

Benjamin Zephaniah, Timothy Spall, Emma Fielding, Alan Cumming, Alex Jennings, Dexter Fletcher

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What is "Dread Poets' Society" about?

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!

When was "Dread Poets' Society" released?

Dread Poets' Society was released in 1992.

Who stars in "Dread Poets' Society"?

The cast includes Benjamin Zephaniah, Timothy Spall, Emma Fielding, Alan Cumming.