# Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas)

Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas) at Abney Park, Sunday 15 November 2026, 19:30.

- Venue: Abney Park, 219 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH London
- With: Paul McGill
- Go to page: https://abneypark.org/upcoming-events/2026/8/31/life-drawing-theatre-through-me-is-the-way-to-the-sorrowful-city-divine-comedy-inferno-sonnets

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Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas) is an interactive storytelling workshop combining performance and drawing. Sonnets from Dante's Divine Comedy are narrated by Paul McGill, while models hold poses inspired by each sonnet for 5 to 10 minutes, letting attendees sketch their own storyboard without needing any artistic experience or prior knowledge of the poem. Among the sonnets is the tale of Odysseus from Canto XXVI, in which Dante and Virgil encounter the voyager among the Fraudulent Counsellors. The workshop is part of the Tales of Departure series within the Gates of the Abode season, and takes place in the Gothic, picturesque setting of Abney Park, whose Egyptian Revival gateway has long marked a threshold between the world of the living and the dead.

## Dates

- Sunday 15 November 19:30 — Abney Park

Written by a model, sources: [abneypark.org](https://abneypark.org/upcoming-events/2026/8/31/life-drawing-theatre-through-me-is-the-way-to-the-sorrowful-city-divine-comedy-inferno-sonnets)

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