My first real directing gig, the first time I directed a play other than my own, was Bloody Poetry, a work from the 1980s by Howard Brenton, an English playwright. It’s about Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, her sister Claire, and the obscure John Polidori (the doctor and writer who traveled with them and penned The Vampyre). Together, they traipse across Europe and the Alps — outlaws, lovers, renegades, poets.
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