Enjoy these beautiful and timely poetry readings in BritWeek’s POETRY CORNER, featuring Saffron Burrows, Finola Hughes, Lisa LoCiCero, Paul Crewes, Becky Lythgoe and more…
BritWeek Founder Dr. Nigel Lythgoe OBE offers us a reading of Marriott Edgar’s “The Lion and Albert.”
Actress Saffron Burrows offers us a reading of Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese.
SAFFRON BURROWS | IMDB
Born in London, Saffron Dominique Burrows is a British-American actress and model. Burrows has appeared in films such as Circle of Friends, Wing Commander, Deep Blue Sea, Gangster No. 1, Enigma, Troy, Reign Over Me and The Bank Job. On TV she has starred in Boston Legal, My Own Worst Enemy and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She appeared as Cynthia Taylor on the Amazon Video series Mozart in the Jungle.
Actress Finola Hughes offers us a reading of Kitty O’Meara’s viral poem And the People Stayed Home.
FINOLA HUGHES | IMDB | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM
Finola Hughes is an English actress, television host, entrepreneur, author and dancer, best known for role as Anna Devane on the ABC soap operas General Hospital and All My Children, and her portrayal of Laura in the 1983 film Staying Alive, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever. Hughes started dancing at a young age, and was trained in dance and performing arts at the Arts Educational Schools London. She originated the white cat in CATS London. She directed her first movie in 2012 and just completed directing her first TV episode for Good Trouble on FreeForm.
Becky Lythgoe, accompanied by her son Leo, offers us a reading of Wendy Cope’s The Orange.
BECKY LYTHGOE | IMDB
Becky Baeling Lythgoe is an American singer-recording artist, actor, producer and television host, known for appearances in House, How I Met Your Mother and The Guru.
Actress Lisa LoCicero offers us a reading of There Will Come Soft Rains, a poem by Sara Teasdale.
LISA LOCICERO | IMDB | TWITTER
Lisa LoCicero is an American actress, best known for her roles as Olivia Falconeri Quartermaine on the long running soap General Hospital and quarter Klingon, Ensign Miral Paris on Star Trek Voyager. She is honored to be included once again in this years BritWeek festivities!
Paul Crewes shares a short ‘poem’ by the late comedian Spike Milligan.
PAUL CREWES | TWITTER
Paul Crewes, former British theater producer, is the Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Crewes has overseen the expansion of the Wallis agenda on two stages: the 500-seat Bram Goldsmith Theater and the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater, the latter of which is convertible into a nightclub, The Sorting Room. Prior to the Wallis, Crewes was CEO and executive producer of Great Britain’s Kneehigh Theater.