Purcell, The Musical is The Telling's 13-date tour of a concertplay (where music and theatre collide) by award-winning writer Clare Norburn with BAFTA-nominated director Nicolas Renton. 1695: in his final illness, composer Henry Purcell is suffering from feverish dream-like hallucinations in which past, present and fantasy collide, and his songs take on a life of their own! His bedroom transforms into a theatre and Purcell reminisces about his childhood, romances and life as a theatre composer. Interwoven into the drama is an assortment of Purcell's compositions from bawdy theatre ballads and joyful celebrations of love, to slow airs, a ‘mad song’, and a few numbers from his semi-operas.