Dread Poets Society Filming Locations
Where was Dread Poets Society filmed? Dread Poets Society was filmed in 1 locations across United Kingdom in the following places:
Dread Poets Society Filming Locations
Wolverhampton is a city in central England. The 19th-century Wolverhampton Art Gallery has collections from Old Master paintings to locally made steel jewellery. West, Wightwick Manor and Gardens is known for its William Morris interiors and landscaping. Arts & Crafts–style furnishings and Pre-Raphaelite art feature at Bantock House Museum. Nearby, Victorian-era West Park has a lake, bowling green and conservatory.
Dread Poets Society (1992)
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues.