Dove Street South
Thu 12 Nov · 20:00 · £12.50
Performance storytelling by: Sarah Liisa Wilkinson . - By the edge of a deep forest and the shore of a biting sea, an old man sets his mind on a journey to the underworld - to learn the secrets of the dead. But - and this is where it gets tricky - he wants to stay alive. Sarah Liisa Wilkinson brings you tales from the twisting roots of Finnish myth and folklore: a woman spinning her own iron hair; a shapeshifting sage; a giant, fat with spells, sleeping deep in the earth; a coat of fire, gloves of pain - dangerous tools and hard lessons on how to live, how to let go... and how to come back. CONTENT WARNING : this performance contains references to death, threat, and violence contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype, and metaphor. SARAH LIISA WILKINSON Half-English and half-Finnish, storyteller Sarah Lisa Wilkinson is one of the brightest new talents to emerge in British storytelling. She has trained as a performer with Philippe Gaulier, and as a storyteller with Nell Phoenix and Ben Haggarty. She has told stories to audiences in clubs, pubs, festivals, churches, front rooms and all-night sleepovers. She is a member of The Embers Collective, a professional storytelling and music collective putting on events in intriguing and intimate settings all over London. sarahliisawilkinson.com CRICK CRACK CLUB 'The Crick Crack Club is something special.' A Younger Theatre Founded in 1987 by world-class performance storyteller and sector pioneer, Ben Haggarty , today Crick Crack Club is the UK's busiest and boldest performance storytelling programmer and promoter. It creates exuberant, intelligent, wild, weird and wonderful events in London, Bristol, Dorset, and across the UK, that draw people from all walks of life into a shared experience and the stunning content of international fairytale, folk tale, myth and epic.
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.