The great flowering of the English lute song provides us with nearly thirty printed books of songs by about twenty different composers, with many more found in manuscript sources. Whether for solo voice or multiple voices in dialogue or ensemble, many of these songs were likely performed in a dramatic context, and some positively cry out for dramatic treatment.  The Lute Song Cabaret, staged in modern dress and employing historical rhetorical gesture, presents works by Dowland, Campion, Jones, Ferrabosco and others in touching and delightful vignettes of life and love in the age of Shakespeare, as performers deliver their poignant tales in arrangements for combinations of lutes as well as mixed consorts.