Duration: 85 min
Start: 20:30
End: 21:55
Price: € 15
Language: EN
Location: Big Theatre
Greek myths unleashed in a Performance Storytelling by Ben Haggarty.
A girl raised by a bear, centaurs intent on rape, maniacal kings, troublesome boars, and bitterly feuding deities contrive the bloodiest race to ever stain the soil of Arcady.
Audaciously reshuffling epic Greek Mythology, Ben Haggarty brings to the stage a fierce tale of a remarkable virgin hunter and devotee of Artemis who sure as hell doesn’t want to have anything to do with men.
Here the veneers of classical civilisation are stripped away, and the truly awesome implications of the tales are made, sometimes unbearably, clear. Spend a moonlit night in the company of wild women, cocksure warriors and gods unleashed.
‘ a tour-de-force of storytelling‘ – Remote Goat
‘a fresh dose of magic that you need in your life’ Everything Theatre
‘bloody brilliant‘ – Time Out”
Suitable for adults (16+)
This performance may contain strong language, descriptions of or references to sex, death, attempted rape, death in childbirth, execution and mutilation contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
Having trained in mime, and in theatre direction at East 15, and apprenticed as an image-maker with Welfare State, Ben is one of the UK’s most popular contemporary storytellers and a pioneer of the European storytelling renaissance. He is renowned for his passionate and physical performances. He tours widely, has been a guest artist in over one hundred International Storytelling Festivals in 32 countries and was for 10 years the official storyteller with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. Ben is a much sought after teacher and director of storytellers, and is the founder and artistic director of the legendary Crick Crack Club. He is Honorary Professor of Storytelling at the Arts University of Berlin (UDK). His graphic novel series ‘MeZolith’ is published by Archaia. In 2014, he won the Fringe First for Spoken Word award for ‘Mr Sandmann, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares’.
Adaptation, Direction and Performance by Ben Haggarty