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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Georgia Mann

We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House

Charles I Charles II Iestyn Davies Rubens Oliver Cromwell James I Robert Johnson Shakespeare Sting Whitehall
Actors in ragged costumes dance during a scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest on a shipwreck set
A scene from The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon in 2016. Shakespeare’s play had its first recorded performance at the old Banqueting House in 1611.
 Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

King Charles is on the throne, there’s anxiety around the power-brokers of Whitehall, and an age of deep political division and conspiracy obsession is under way.

That’s right, I’m referring to the middle years of the 17th century, a period I’m immersed in as I’m putting together a Jacobean-Carolean Classical DJ set, where the beats are to be dropped beneath one of the UK’s most awesome works of art: the Rubens painted ceiling at the Banqueting House in Whitehall.

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