Performance storytelling by: Ben Haggarty.

-

A blacksmith
A boy
A wolf
A serpent queen
And the King's youngest daughter…

World renowned for his playful and physical performances, let Ben Haggarty lure you into a full-blooded fairytale for grown-ups. This rare tale of male initiations is a story of power, knowledge, responsibility, alchemy, and the darkest of magics.

Evocative, unflinching, and beautiful by turn, this distant variant of the legend of Wayland The Smith explores the enduring relationship between teacher and apprentice. This is a place where rules aren't broken lightly.

★★★★☆
'Everything a fairy tale should be... unmissable.'
Everything Theatre

★★★★☆
'The doyen of storytellers.'
Remote Goat

'I was spellbound, I don't use the word lightly.'
Erica Wagner, The Times

CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains references to death, violence, mutilation, and animal cruelty contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype, and metaphor.

BEN HAGGARTY

Ben Haggarty is one of the world's leading contemporary storytellers, creating and performing work inspired by international fairytale, myth and epic. Renowned for his playful, physical and often challenging performances, he performs in theatres, art centres and festivals across the UK and Europe. He has been a guest artist in over one hundred International Storytelling Festivals in 25 countries, and for 10 years was the official storyteller with Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble.

Ben is a Fringe First Award winner, Honorary Professor Of Storytelling at the Arts University Of Berlin, artistic director of the legendary Crick Crack Club and Visiting Research Fellow In The Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. Ben is a much sought after teacher, director and narrative consultant, working with performers, writers, illustrators, theatre makers, filmmakers and myriad other creatives.

benhaggarty.com

CRICK CRACK CLUB

'Mesmerising. The Crick Crack Club weaves a web of enchantment.'
Time Out London

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 fairy tales, folktales, myths, and epics. Featuring outstanding performance storytellers and the very best new talent, its annual public programme of shows and residencies can be found in theatres, at festivals, in castles, caves, village halls, rose gardens, and derelict warehouses.

crickcrackclub.com

-

'A treasure house of humour, romance and myth.'
City Limits

★★★★☆
'Unmissable... magical performances in unique venues... chilling, mystifying, adventurous and romantic.'
Everything Theatre

-

Every month, Crick Crack Club brings its wild haven of fairytale, myth and epic to the awesome red velvet surroundings of Bristol's finest independent cinema, theatre and place of happenings, The CUBE Microplex: THE place in Bristol for unusual events, performance art, spoken word and live storytelling for grown-ups.