Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Anthony Boyle has been added to the cast of Three Ages of Yeats, a Dead Poet Live event and dramatised retelling of Yeats’s poetic evolution, at the Gate Theatre on January 31.

He will play the role of a young W.B Yeats alongside Olwen Fouéré and Pete McDonald, who will each interpret different parts of the poet’s life, including “Early Yeats, the Republican in a velvet jacket, writing dreamy love poetry for Maud Gonne; the more direct lyric poet, Middle Yeats, writing out of heartbreak and public life; and Late Yeats, indecent, unbiddable, never more experimental.”

Boyle is best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy in the West End and Broadway productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and recently appeared in the acclaimed Disney+ series Say Nothing. This role marks his debut at the Gate Theatre.

 

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On January 30, Dead Poets Live will present a dramatisation of the life and work of Emily Dickinson, starring Justine Mitchell, using letters, poems and analysis.

Finally, on February 1, actor Éanna Hardwicke will perform an intimate setting of Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal. The autumn of 1938 was, if you were British, arguably the most frightening moment of the twentieth century. Louis MacNeice, a poet from Northern Ireland, was turning thirty-one and working as a lecturer in London; Autumn Journal, his masterpiece, describes his response to a season of intense anxiety and uncertainty.

These Dead Poets Live events form part of the Gate Theatre’s Gatecrashes series of events. As well as attracting people who have not yet been through its doors, it is the ambition of Gatecrashes to interrogate how the Gate uses its spaces.

Tickets for all Dead Poets Live events cost €31 and are available here, with part of the proceeds being donated to the Capuchin Day Centre.