John Harle’s original evening length work which will receive the world premiere this Thursday 21 April at the new Sage Gateshead, with a second performance following on the 23 April, will feature Sarah Jane Morris, Omar Ebrahim, Steve Lodder, Neill MacColl, Kathryn Tickell and the Northern Sinfonia, with John Harle conducting.
The eponymous anti-hero, Jamie Allen was a ne’er-do-well, a horse thief, a mercenary and a highwayman. He was sentenced to death and thrown into Durham jail where the Duke intervened to reduce his sentence from death to life imprisonment. The drama takes place in jail as Jamie recalls his colourful life. “There’s a lot of fast music, thousands of bars of it.” - John Harle
