Edinburgh Festival Fringe performer Steven Berkoff says he plans to recite his September 11 poem rather than read it.
His hour-long solo performance, entitled Requiem for Ground Zero, will premiere at this year's event.
It can be seen at Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms from August 14.
Berkoff said he had a "strong affiliation" with New York, and hoped to recite rather than read the epic poem he wrote in the months after the attacks.
He said: "I've always had such a strong feeling for America, particularly for New York where I've been many times.
"There are a lot of things wrong with it, but I've always found New York to be a responsive and warm-hearted city, and people have been responsive to me."
Berkoff says the show is also a memorial to "the many unknown victims" of the attacks.
He added: "I'm looking at the motives for it, the response, the event itself and the feelings and ideas it has generated.
"Basically, it's based on the reaction - the horror, the shock, the pain, the madness of it - but also why and how it was done."