A MONTHLY STORYTELLING NIGHT FOR GROWN UPS FEATURING SOME OF THE UK’S FINEST TELLERS
2nd Saturday of the month.
7.30pm (Bar & Bookshop from 7pm)
Brigsteer Village Hall, Nr Kendal, LA8 8AL
Tickets £10 on the door (card or cash)
SATURDAY 8TH NOVEMBER, 7.30PM
Brigsteer Village Hall
LILITH: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
Performance Storytelling for Grown Ups by Katy Cawkwell
An uplifting one-woman storytelling show to shock, seduce and entertain.
Lilith was not prepared to lie down and accept what was given to her: thrown out of Eden she slithered back in to take her revenge and wake Eve up to what her body could do. She slipped out of the Bible and is dancing with us still, forever free.
Katy Cawkwell, a performance storyteller at the top of her game, mixes myth from Arabia, Ethiopia, Mesopotamia and Jewish tradition, with a dash of feminist flavouring and a large dollop of her own wild dreaming.
“Totally captivating” “I was spellbound”
“Brave, fun and brilliantly told”
“Wow! What a rich, wonderful evening of entertainment”
“Great interweaving of stories from different cultures and perspectives”
“Katy’s storytelling style is fluent, eloquent, flowing and altogether faultless… joyous, visceral and visual.”
Adrian Johnson, Arts Council England, reviewing a performance at the Barbican
Why I tell stories – Katy Cawkwell
I work with traditional material because I love the way these tales create themselves afresh in the space between teller and audience. There are always new aspects to be found within them, however often they are retold.
Telling stories is when I feel most fully alive: grounded in myself and in the moment and yet connected to a body of material that is rich in humanity and greater than any individual performer. My particular strengths as a teller are to draw out a compelling, moving tale from a complex narrative and to bring it to life in words and gesture.
SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER, 7.30PM
Brigsteer Village Hall
BEOWULF
Beowulf is the oldest story in the English language – and it still has the power to raise the hairs on the back of the neck!
It tells of a hero’s life, a life that is mapped by three tremendous blood-curdling encounters.
As a young man Beowulf defeats the monster Grendel and his even more terrifying Mother, the original creatures from the Black Lagoon. Then, as an old man, he tries his strength against a gold guarding Fire-Drake (a dragon).
Alongside these adrenalin-charged encounters the story explores the journey we all make from the seeming invincibility of youth to the heroic vulnerability of old age. The story has had a tremendous effect on the imagination of many writers and poets, most notably J.R.R. Tolkien. Without Beowulf there would have been no Lord of the Rings.
“impossibly engaging storytelling” The Guardian
