Romantics, Mystics & Revolutionaries

A storytelling storm of rebellion and enchantment

With Pete (the Temp) Bearder

🔥 SHOW BLURB:

This is musical and lyrical history of riot, enchantment and psychedelic testing where scholarship collides with live entertainment. Expect reverence and resistance from a time of slavery and war. 

The Romantic movement rose as an act of defiance against empire, industry, and the mechanisation of the soul. What do their dreams of renewal offer our age of despair? 

Pete Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author, and comic whose work has featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight, and the World Service.

“Pete’s ability to connect with people is unique and intoxicating — a highlight of the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival.”
— Lyra Poetry Festival

🎬 FOOTAGE

🎥 Live Excerpt — Enchantment

🎥 Live Excerpt — Call to Action

🎥 Live Excerpt — Psychedelic Testing

ABOUT PETE

Pete Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight and the World Service. He is a former Hammer & Tongue UK Poetry Slam champion and has performed in over fifteen countries with organisations that include The British Council. His last stage show Homer to Hip Hop appeared over sixty times around the UK.

“Poetry’s answer to Mark Thomas.” — Chortle
“Challenging, inspiring and amusing.” — The Ecologist
“Fresh, empowering and fun.” — Shambala Festival

🌐 www.petethetemp.co.uk

💬 TESTIMONIALS

“Pete the Temp’s extraordinary new show is a dynamic mix of lecture, music, and enchantment.
He guides us through the lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge to reveal how they were creative revolutionaries of their time.
Pete’s ability to connect with people is unique and intoxicating — a highlight of the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival.”
— Lyra Poetry Festival

“Remembering, reviving, and re-enacting the Romantics. We were all very moved.”
— Alfoxton House (home of William Wordsworth)

“Well researched, accessible, and fun.” — Audience member
“A spellbinding journey.” — Audience member