Each day they hear the goblin men's tantalizing cries to buy their succulent fruit. Goblin Market tells the story of two sisters who live on an isolated farm. They have created a cunning tapestry that assaults all the senses while played out in a child's fairytale setting. For their part, Cummings, Beaty and Shields have included all of Rossetti's contrary elements into their intriguing and unique dance drama. Goblin Market a children's poem, but the adult language resonates with strong religious imagery, graphic eroticism and touches of feminism. She turned down two offers of marriage because one man had converted to Catholicism and the other she considered too pagan. Rossetti (1830-1894), associated with the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was so deeply religious that Anglican Christianity was the guiding principal of her life. Given Rossetti's personal ethics, her most famous poem contains puzzling elements that seem at odds with one another. Goblin Market began as a workshop with Equity Showcase Theatre in 2006, and this production is its glorious full flowering. Actors Maev Beaty and Erin Shields under choreographer Allison Cummings have brought Christina Rossetti's famous 1859 poem to life by transforming the work into a brilliant dance/theatre/performance-art installation that is as whimsical as it is disturbing. Goblin Market is one hour of unadulterated theatrical bliss.
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