Gabriel description
Award-winning playwright Samuel Adamson brings a teeming world of intersecting narratives to the Globe stage with real & imagined characters: monarchs, prostitutes, wigmakers, composers, transvestites and watermen. Alison Balsom, one of the world’s finest trumpeters brings this world to life with the music of Purcell and Handel.
Gabriel overflows with the extreme emotions of lust, despair, love and grief (with a dash of saucy humour) and brings some of the finest music ever written to a space uniquely suited to it.
‘Every day three trumpet calls from the theatres on the Bankside, then songs would float over the thatch and roll across the water and make my work sweet.’
Contains some saucy language and rude bits.
‘She makes the trumpet sing with an irresistible exuberance and eloquence’
The Times
‘Occasionally a player comes along who turns all the preconceived ideas about their instrument on their head and reinvents the repertoire’
Classic FM
