Once hailed as the architect of modern poetry, Pound’s intellectual restlessness drew him toward cultures, histories, and languages with ferocious appetite — and also toward Fascism and antisemitism.

After the Second World War, he was arrested for treason in connection with his pro-Axis broadcasts and confined to St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, deemed unfit to stand trial.

Set inside that institution, the play stages a brutal choice: remain officially “insane” and protected by the asylum, or face the courtroom and the possibility of execution. Marshall-Stoneking refuses apology or absolution. Instead, he examines the paradox of a man whose imagination was vast and generous, while his politics were mean, violent, and destructive.

What emerges is a sharp meditation on guilt and responsibility, brilliance and blindness — a work that looks directly at Pound without flinching, and without letting admiration blur into excuse.