Ian Frost, the English actor, and Bill Studdiford, the American playwright, return with their new production, "Three Romantics, BYRON, KEATS & SHELLEY!"
    After exploring each of the three Romantic poets individually, it occurred to the playwright that it was time to compare, contrast, and enjoy the three of them together. And why should the actor have all the fun? He wrote himself into the script as well!
    "After nearly 200 years," Studdiford says, "people are still talking about them, lumping them together, and getting them mixed up."
    In the play, Byron, Keats and Shelley are compared - what they thought of each other, their differences, their similarities, their sense of humor, the most notorious, the most romantic, the most rebellious. Also included: more of their poetry.
    "Although we don't claim to be academics, we believe the years we have worked with these three Romantic poets have given us an interesting and valid viewpoint about them," Frost says and Studdiford agrees.
    Their first play - a biography of Lord Byron - premiered in New York City 18 years ago. Then came an adaptation of Byron's most famous poem, "Don Juan", a third play providing a new look at Byron and those around him, and an informal presentation of letters and poetry written in Venice.
    When the curator of the Keats House Museum in London asked them to prepare a solo presentation for the John Keats bicentennial, Studdiford was pleased to write about someone other than Byron - "It's nice to be asked!"
    After the Keats show joined the repertory, it was impossible for them to ignore requests to "do a piece about Shelley." 
    Then the theatrical team returned to Byron with a presentation based on his delightful poem, "BEPPO: A Venetian Love Story". That brought the total up to seven different one-man shows, which have been performed in New York City, throughout the USA, at the Edinburgh Festival, on tours of major cities in England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, France, Greece and Italy ... and on cruise ships in the Mid-Atlantic, the Caribbean, and twice through the Panama Canal.
   The actor enjoys sharing the stage with the playwright in "The Three Romantics, BYRON, KEATS & SHELLEY!" This latest presentation has already been received enthusiastically in Italy, France, England and America.

We've traveled far and wide with our nine presentations. If you are interested in booking a performance, please contact us. If we don't have a performance schedule for your area, we would be happy to discuss setting one up.

As you would imagine from the varied venues we refer to (fair-size professional theatres, hotel ballrooms, lecture halls, meeting rooms - and even invitations to perform in larger private homes), our fees are on a decidedly sliding scale ... booking fee, percentage, or honorarium.

If you are seriously interested in a performance, we will do all we can to make this possible.