Theatre / storytelling
The Crick Crack Club announces Spring season of storytelling at The Cube
Running monthly sell-out events at The Cube, along with occasional masterclasses and workshops in their craft, The Crick Crack Club are bastions of the storytelling community within Bristol.
Their spring season has now been announced, and features a characteristic mix of mythology, folklore and contemporary fairytales.
In Orpheus Dismembered, world-class storyteller and Crick Crack founder Ben Haggarty will be diving deep into the dark and brooding dreamscape of Greek mythology, accompanied by live music from Jonah Brody.
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Orpheus Dismembered – photo: The Crick Crack Club
Then comes the self-styled “wonder-tales” of Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, described as “surreal, enchanting and hallucinatory” in nature.
Once upon a time there were three sisters, and three brothers, and a mortal king, and a tree of gold, a fruit of life, a mountain of glass, a witch in the woods with a knife, and a daughter, a slaughter and a sacrifice, a shared myth, a curse, a tragic truth, another world beyond a wall, the devil himself, and other wonders…
Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Malcolm Green presents Gone Cuckoo, a tale in which myth and science criss-cross one another in celebration of a beloved bird. Still synonymous with the first signs of Spring, the cuckoo is now on the wane in England.
And in a performance encompassing performance, lecture and storytelling, Dr Seema Anand will guide her audience on a path “to decode the mysteries of the most fierce and most feared of Hindu goddesses – the Mahavidyas”.
The Mahavidyas
Orpheus Dismembered by Ben Haggarty, with music by Jonah Brody is on February 22.
And Other Wonders by Sarah Liisa Wilkinson is on March 21.
Gone Cuckoo by Malcolm Green, with music by Josh Green is on April 18.
The Tantric Ten by Seema Anand is on May 16.
All Bristol Crick Crack Club shows are at The Cube, beginning at 8pm. For more information and tickets to all forthcoming Crick Crack Club events, go to www.crickcrackclub.com.
All photos: The Crick Crack Club (main photo: Ben Haggarty)
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