⭐ YOUNG ROMANTICS – A NEW MUSICAL ANNOUNCED – SONGS BY BASTILLE’S DAN SMITH ⭐
YOUNG ROMANTICS, a new musical with music and lyrics by Bastille’s Dan Smith, has been announced to be in-development.
YOUNG ROMANTICS is a coming-of-age musical about five complicated friends chasing creative and romantic freedom, but at what cost?
It’s a dark and stormy night at The Villa Diodati – a grand house on the shores of Lake Geneva – where five young and notorious friends – Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and Dr John Polidori – are caught in a complicated web of love triangles. Exiled from London’s polite society and sheltering from terrible storms, the YOUNG ROMANTICS spend one fateful week together that will have repercussions that reach us today.
Dan Smith commented: “The events of that summer are famously fascinating – this collision of huge, young personalities, stuck together inside a big house while storms rage outside – and the more you delve into the story, the wilder and more unbelievable it becomes. Beyond the sex, fame, heartbreak, and horror stories lies a deeper exploration of youth on the edge of adulthood – full of hope, creativity, chaos and the desire to escape. Our characters are trying to make sense of the world and themselves through art, all while confronting grief, trauma, inequality, and the pressure to conform.
These events unfolded over 200 years ago but feel strikingly modern; the more we explore this story, the more it becomes a mirror to the world we live in now. At the heart of “YOUNG ROMANTICS” are issues that feel increasingly pressing in 2026: freedom of speech, the right to love who you choose, gender equality, impossible beauty standards, self-representation and artistic integrity.
Our protagonists assert their agency and act on impulse, reminding us that people in the past were every bit as bold, conflicted and reckless as we are today.”
Dan Smith is a Grammy-nominated and Brit Award-winning singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. Smith is the creative force and lead singer of BASTILLE, who have sold over 11 million records, had three number 1 albums on the UK charts and have been streamed over 7 billion times.
YOUNG ROMANTICS is produced by Simon Friend & Hanna Osmolska for Melting Pot. Further details will be announced soon.
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