Storm's Eye

Storm Front

Music: Michael Henry
Words: Sharon Eckman and Michael Henry from found text by Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gabriele Rossetti and James Collinson

Christina Rossetti/Chorus – Sharon Eckman
Dante Gabriel Rossetti/Papa/Chorus – Michael Henry
Piano/Chorus – Jonathan Williams

Director – Kath Burlinson
Video content designer – Aija Koke

“I tell my secret? No indeed, not I;”

Christina Rossetti – archetypal spinster, deeply religious -also wrote some of the most subversive, erotic, teasing poems of that or any era. And she had a secret.

Storm’s Eye: A Theatrical Songbook explores how the attitudes and constraints of Victorian society towards men and women influenced Christina’s life and work.

Further reading: Christina Rossetti (Writers & Their Work) – Kathryn Burlinson


http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/storms-eye/