The Telling – I Spie

Promoter
Other Local Events
Date

Wednesday 19th June, 2024

Time

7:30 pm

Venue

Quarterhouse, Tontine Street

Type of event

Concertplay

Artists

The Telling attempts to break new ground, where new writing and music collide. We tour high-quality, accessible and affordable productions to places that are often missed out on touring circuits. We are also known for our special intimate performances of carols.

Programme

The imagined story of John Dowland, as he combines his life as a court musician/composer with the Elizabethan espionage underworld.

Centred around an extraordinary letter written by Renaissance composer/lutenist John Dowland to spymaster Sir Robert Cecil in 1595, this spell-binding concertplay (where music and theatre collide) by award-winning writer Clare Norburn and BAFTA-nominated director Nicholas Renton imagines what might have happened next.

I, Spie tells the story of how John Dowland manages to foil an Italian plot on the life of Queen Elizabeth I and his ensuing grisly dealings with the Secret Service. Think Blackadder meets Spooks with music by Dowland, his contemporaries, and Elizabethan tavern, street and courtly masque music.

Ticket Prices

£5 – £20

Booking

https://www.thetelling.co.uk/events/i-spie-folkestone