A GOTHIC CHRISTMAS - Goblin Market

GOBLIN MARKET - A Performance with Spoken Word and Golden Harp at Guys Hospital Chapel with Elizabeth Jane-Baldry & Maxine Dubois on Saturday the 7th December 2023 at 7:00 pm Join us in the candlit Gothic surrounds of Guys Hospital Chapel for a very special spoken word and musical performance. ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti's celebrated and disturbing 1859 narrative poem, is a unique combination of the grotesque, the fairytale, the erotic, and the moral. It tells the fable of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who live alone. When Laura succumbs to temptation and eats exotic goblin fruits, Lizzie risks everything to save her. Christina was the sister of the pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and modelled for some of his most famous paintings. At the time of writing the poem, she was volunteering at the St Mary Magdalene House of Charity in Highgate, a refuge for ex-prostitutes. The evening opens with a short performance by actress Maxine Dubois embodying the character of Christina stalked by death and reflecting on her life and loves. The music for 'Goblin Market' is by Elizabeth-Jane Baldry. Tickets £16 including a delightful gin cocktail and 20% donation to Guy's and St Thomas' Charity. Please click here to purchase. Elizabeth-Jane Baldry Harpist and Composer Elizabeth-Jane Baldry fell in love with the harp as a young child whilst reading fairytales in which the harp possessed magical powers! She is now a busy concert harpist, performing internationally. She specialises in playing live to cinema screenings of early film, and has won multiple awards for her silent film accompaniments. Her uniquely rich tone on the harp has graced several film/TV soundtrack screened in over 30 countries. Her compositions have been used by ITV, the BBC, and Irish, Japanese, Danish, and Canadian film, radio and television. Maxine DuBois Maxine DuBois has performed all over the world on stage and screen, including London’s West End, New York, Los Angeles and British Repertory Theatre. She won the Derby Telegraph Best Actress award for her role as Rita in ‘Educating Rita’.She has appeared on the popular British TV dramas, Coronation St., Emmerdale Farm, Doctors, Mersey Beat and Broken. She has also had a career as a dancer, notably as principal dancer for Sir Matthew Bourne. Performing principal roles in Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella and the Nutcracker. Maxine is a busy commercial actress and voiceover artist and was a vocalist for the award-winning vocal group 'The Mediaeval Baebes'.

GOBLIN MARKET - A Performance with Spoken Word and Golden Harp at Guys Hospital Chapel with Elizabeth Jane-Baldry & Maxine Dubois
on Saturday the 7th December 2023 at 7:00 pm

Join us in the candlit Gothic surrounds of Guys Hospital Chapel for a very special spoken word and musical performance.

‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti's celebrated and disturbing 1859 narrative poem, is a unique combination of the grotesque, the fairytale, the erotic, and the moral. It tells the fable of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who live alone. When Laura succumbs to temptation and eats exotic goblin fruits, Lizzie risks everything to save her.

Christina was the sister of the pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and modelled for some of his most famous paintings. At the time of writing the poem, she was volunteering at the St Mary Magdalene House of Charity in Highgate, a refuge for ex-prostitutes.

The evening opens with a short performance by actress Maxine Dubois embodying the character of Christina stalked by death and reflecting on her life and loves. The music for 'Goblin Market' is by Elizabeth-Jane Baldry.

Tickets £16 including a delightful gin cocktail and 20% donation to Guy's and St Thomas' Charity. Please click here to purchase.

Elizabeth-Jane Baldry
Harpist and Composer Elizabeth-Jane Baldry fell in love with the harp as a young child whilst reading fairytales in which the harp possessed magical powers! She is now a busy concert harpist, performing internationally. She specialises in playing live to cinema screenings of early film, and has won multiple awards for her silent film accompaniments. Her uniquely rich tone on the harp has graced several film/TV soundtrack screened in over 30 countries. Her compositions have been used by ITV, the BBC, and Irish, Japanese, Danish, and Canadian film, radio and television.

Maxine DuBois
Maxine DuBois has performed all over the world on stage and screen, including London’s West End, New York, Los Angeles and British Repertory Theatre. She won the Derby Telegraph Best Actress award for her role as Rita in ‘Educating Rita’.She has appeared on the popular British TV dramas, Coronation St., Emmerdale Farm, Doctors, Mersey Beat and Broken. She has also had a career as a dancer, notably as principal dancer for Sir Matthew Bourne. Performing principal roles in Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella and the Nutcracker. Maxine is a busy commercial actress and voiceover artist and was a vocalist for the award-winning vocal group 'The Mediaeval Baebes'.