The Earthly Paradise

The Earthly Paradise www.theearthlyparadise.com/ blogger has written a review of Possessed and put up one of the great rehearsal photographs of Anna Francolini and Joseph Millson as Jane and Gabriel (taken by Charles Girdham).  The photograph is taken from the scene at Kelmscott Manor, where Jane and Gabriel spend the summer together, while Topsy (William Morris) is in Iceland writing his Norse Saga.  It represents the heightened moment when Gabriel wants Jane to do more than sit for him - played out in the duet "More Than Life, itself".  He has never been able to tell Jane that he loves her, he can only do it in song.