EMILY DICKINSON
The Coronet Theatre is a reimagined architectural and design jewel, originally built as a grand Victorian Playhouse, now a pioneering home for international, cross-disciplinary arts. Curated by Artistic Director Anda Winters, over the past decade it has become a significant cultural landmark.
Known for world and UK premieres, its mission is to bring artists and art forms from around the world, championing work that would not otherwise be seen. The programme enables access for diverse audiences to world-class theatre, dance, music, film and visual arts through co-productions, commissions, and invited works.
Centrally situated in London’s Notting Hill, The Coronet has two main spaces: The Auditorium and The Print Room Studio. With the additional performances and exhibitions in the bar, the atmospheric upper rooms, and basements, the whole building is a living global showcase.
Though I read and teach Emily Dickinson constantly, I remain a bewildered idolator, struggling to understand her enigmatic sublimities… At her strongest, she has something in her lyrics that recalls the swiftness and compression of Shakespeare’s mind.
Harold Bloom
Éanna Hardwicke Autumn Journal
DEAD POETS LIVE: EMILY
07–08 Mar
DICKINSON
STARRING PATSY FERRAN
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) wrote nearly 1,800 poems –epigrammatic, metaphysical, tragic, playful, intimate, and unsettling. Her work resists easy interpretation, condensing vast emotional and philosophical worlds into lines of startling precision and power.
Drawing on poems, letters, and critical insight, Dead Poets Live brings Dickinson’s life and work vividly to the stage, exploring the mind of a writer who remains at once deeply personal and profoundly unknowable.This dramatised reading invites audiences into the wit, intensity, and radical originality of one of America’s greatest poets.
Dead Poets Live have established a cult following at The Coronet Theatre for their dramatised readings of classic poetry, attracting some of Britain’s finest actors including Rory Kinnear,Tamsin Greig, Lindsay Duncan, Denise Gough and Tom Hiddleston. All proceeds from their evenings go to the charity Safe Passage. Dead Poets Live is devised and supported by The TS Eliot Foundation.
Script and direction: James Lever (also MC) and Oliver Rowse
Produced by: Clare Reihill
#454 It was given to me by the Gods / #1021 Far from Love the Heavenly Father / #1545 Diagnosis of the Bibe, by a Boy / #1397 It sounded as if the Streets were running / #401 What Soft Cherubic Creatures / #732 She Rose to his requirement, dropt / #443 I tie my Hat – I crease my Shawl / #214 I taste a liquor never brewed - / #441 This is my letter to the world / #508 I’m ceded – I’ve stopped being Theirs / #391 A Visitor in Marl / #288 I’m Nobody!
Who are You? / #605 The spider holds a Silver Ball / #742 Four Trees –Upon a Solitary Acre / #465 I heard a Fly buzz – when I died / #754 My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun / #280 I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain / #937 I felt a cleaving in my Mind / #510 It was not death, for I stood up / #410 The first Day’s Night had come / #341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes / #561 I measure every Grief I meet / #1540 As imperceptibly as Grief / #712 Because I could not stop for Death / #1695 There is a solitude of space / #718 I meant to find her when I came
Please sing: #401
What Soft Cherubic Creatures
These Gentlewomen areOne would as soon assault a Plush* Or violate a Star
Such Dimity ConvictionsA Horror so refined Of freckled Human NatureOf Deity - ashamed.
It's such a common Glory A Fisherman's DegreeRedemption, Brittle Lady, Be so ashamed of Thee.
PATSY FERRAN
In 2023, Patsy won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida and the Phoenix, also being nominated for an Olivier Award. Also at the Almeida, she was Olga in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and starred in Summer and Smoke, for which she won both the 2019 Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress.
Other theatre work includes: Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol (Bridge Theatre); 15 Heroines: The Labyrinth (Jermyn Street Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); My Mum’s A Twat (Royal Court); The Merchant Of Venice (RSC). Patsy won the Most Promising Newcomer in 2014 and was nominated for an Emerging Talent Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2015. She was a Screen International Star of Tomorrow in 2018. For Dead Poets Live, Patsy played Elizabeth Bishop opposite Juliet Stevenson’s Marianne Moore.
Recent film work includes: Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly; Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk; Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 (all 2025) and Living; White Bird; Mothering Sunday; Darkest Hour; God’s Own Country. Notable television includes: Jane Austen in Miss Austen; Black Mirror; Will; Guerrilla; Jamestown; Black Narcissus.
The Haunter
Sylvia Plath
PASSAGE
HUNG DANCE
12 - 14 Mar
“This choreographic work explores the beauty and complexity of tension and counterbalance, with remarkable precision and poetic sensitivity.”
Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition, 2025
“Sublime choreography”
La Provence
30 Apr - 02 May
BY CARYL CHURCHILL
Praise for the original production of Escaped Alone: 06 - 09 May
“Caryl Churchill’s magnificent play unleashes an intricate, elliptical, acutely female view of the apocalypse. Revolutionary.”
THE CORONET THEATRE TEAM
Artistic Director & CEO
Anda Winters
Audience Experience Manager
Giudi Di Gesaro
Company & Production Coordinator
Emma Smith
Consultant Producer
Hetty Shand
Finance Manager
Andrew Michel
General Manager
Andy McDonald
Lead Technician
Louis Williams
Marketing Manager (Freelance)
Elliot Hall
Poetry Coordinator
Marion Manning
PR Consultant
Sharon Kean
Producer
Daphne Seale
Producing & Marketing Assistant
Esme Bishop
Theatre Administrator / PA to the
Artistic Director
Vihaan Chandy
Box Office Assistant
Ivana Dieli
Duty Managers
Francesca Battinieri, Annabelle
Gardner, Joanna Papanastassiou, Aylin Rodoplu, Hazel Townsend
Front of House Staff
Matilda Badziak, Eugénie Bakker, Aidan Bose-Rosling, Stephanie
Christodoulidou, Merilee Ettia, Katrina Foster, Trey Francis, Thea Gavanski, Hugo Gregg, Li IkokuSmith, Dane Kostic, Emma LairdCraig, Maria Lisberg-Jonasson, Hamza Mullick, Kajsa Wiberg
Norquist, Andreane Rellou
Trustees
Linda Bernhardt, Mike Fisher, Mimi Gilligan, Jane Quinn, Anda Winters, Bill Winters (Chair)
Thank you to our patrons for their generous support:
Club Room
Ros Shelley, Julia Rochester, Tom Glocer, Jane Quinn
Cupola
Mike Fisher, Judith Hooper, Clare Reihill
Honorary Trustee
Mimi Gilligan
