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!

Full Cast of Dread Poets' Society

Emma Fielding as Mary Shelley

Emma Fielding

as Mary Shelley

Emma Fielding (born 7 October 1966) is an English actress.

Alan Cumming as Shelley

Alan Cumming

as Shelley

Alan Cumming, OBE FRSE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish-American stage and screen actor, singer, comedian, direct...

Benjamin Zephaniah as Self

Benjamin Zephaniah

as Self

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He was included in The Times list of ...

Dexter Fletcher as Keats

Dexter Fletcher

as Keats

Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English actor and director. He has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock...


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