Theatre / Performance

Lucy Lill: Doom Scrolls: The Never-ending Prophecies Of The Sibyls

Dove Street South

Thu 17 Sept · 20:00 · £12.50

Talk

About this event

Performance storytelling by: Lucy Lill . - Headfirst Editor's Pick 'Sell out warning! Bin Nolan! And descend into the mysteries of the ancient world with Crick Crack Club thespian and live performance storyteller Lucy Lill. She reimagines the words of Greece's doom-dealing oracles, exploring their otherworldly power and the fine line between divine wisdom and political theatre. No refunds for bad omens...' - Possessed by gods? Off their heads on laughing gas? The mouthpieces of the state? Or the ancient world's most influential influencers? The prophecies of the Sibyls thread through ancient myth. Feared, revered and frequently misunderstood, the Sibyls stood at the crossroads of religion, politics and performance. Their visions promised answers while leaving everyone wondering what they actually meant. From a mountain in the southeast of Italy to the depths of the underworld, Lucy Lill tells the stories of the women whose words founded cities, brought down armies and caused an epic amount of confusion. She might know your future, but that doesn't mean she's going to tell you... - CONTENT WARNING : this performance contains references to ageism, implied sexual assault, kidnap, and animal cruelty contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype, and metaphor. LUCY LILL Lucy Lill is a performance storyteller based in London. She works extensively at the Half Moon Children's Theatre in Limehouse, East London; Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London; the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol; Kew Gardens; the Wellcome Collection; Newbury Corn Exchange; the Beyond The Border Storytelling Festival, Wales; and at storytelling nights across the UK. She has told tales regularly for The Embers Collective, a storytelling and music collective based in London, and co-produces the ACE-funded show, Women Who Gave No F*cks with Alys Torrance as part of Story Jam.