"Handel's Ghosts" is based on a fictional personal meeting of Bach and Handel in 1747 on the occasion of Bach's admission to the "Societät der musikalischen Wissenschaften" [Society of Musical Sciences] of which Handel had been the first and only honourary member since 1745. Both born in 1685,
Byzantium by Robin Brooks: the true story of the Empress Zoe and her desperate struggle to stay on the throne of the Byzantine Empire, in a vortex of sexual and political intrigue.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge promised to be the genius of his generation, but his creative achievement was contaminated by chronic procrastination, addiction and hallucination. Robin Brooks's inventive play tells the story of Coleridge's ill-fated friendship with William Wordsworth and his infatuation
