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Gabriel

English

By (author): Samuel Adamson

This is noisily Protestant England - the England of William and Mary's Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife. This is London in the 1690s, the monster city tamed into awe by our only Orpheus: Henry Purcell.

Monarchs, princes, prostitutes, wigmakers, composers, tapsters, musicians, transvestites and watermen jostle for attention in the teeming, unruly world of late seventeenth-century London, where enthralling stories both real and imagined merge and intersect.

Samuel Adamson's Gabriel premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in July 2013 with Alison Balsom, one of the world's finest trumpeters, performing the music of Purcell and Handel.

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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 131g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Jul 2013
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780571309511

About Samuel Adamson

Samuel Adamson's plays include: Wife (Kiln Theatre) Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios) All About My Mother (from Almodóvar; Old Vic) Fish and Company (Soho Theatre/National Youth Theatre) Southwark Fair (National Theatre) Drink Dance Laugh and Lie (Bush Theatre/Channel 4) Grace Note (Peter Hall Company/Old Vic) Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre) contributions to the 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic) A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre) and Urban Scrawl (TheatreVoice/Theatre 503). Adaptations include: Ibsen's Pillars of the Community and Mrs Affleck from Ibsen's Little Eyolf (both at the National Theatre) A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (Oxford Stage Company/Riverside Studios) and Three Sisters (OSC/Whitehall Theatre); Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi (Dumbfounded Theatre/Arcola Theatre/Radio 3); Bernhard Studlar's Vienna Dreaming (National Theatre Studio); a musical based on George MacDonald's The Light Princess with Tori Amos (National Theatre); and Jack Maggs from Peter Carey's novel (State Theatre Company of South Australia). Radio includes: Tomorrow Week (Radio 3). Film includes Running for River (Directional Studios/Krug). He was Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush in 1997-8.

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