Performance storytelling by: Nell Phoenix.

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'I heard a whining voice but saw nobody in the room.'
'We saw her and we saw right through her.'
'I blinked just once and he had changed his shape.'

Nell Phoenix paces a path from dusty Mesopotamia, to ancient Egypt, through London's Bloomsbury, along a dingy road in Guatemala at dawn, and back to her own kitchen table – gathering up disturbing, unsettling, baffling, bewildering, sinister, UNCANNY stories.

These are not literary tales crafted to scare you. These are not folktales, bloody fairy-tales, or urban myths. These are spine-tingling tales told as true by one of the UK's most popular and dynamic storytellers.

Who are these witnesses of these other-worldly acts? Why did they tell their stories? And do we believe in ghosts?

'She picks through her tale like a mountain goat skipping up a cliff face.'
London City Nights

'A mercurial and captivating performer.'
Dave Fargnoli (The Stage)

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains references to the supernatural, threat, death and dying, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.

NELL PHOENIX

Nell Phoenix has been performing professionally since graduating from Goldsmiths College. She has performed with theatre companies for 12 years, touring all around the world - from the Blackpool Grand to the Sydney Opera House; all over the UK, Ireland, Eastern and Western Europe, Australia, and in all sorts of spaces and places in between.

Recent work includes stories told at the British Museum, Hampton Court Palace, Royal Opera House, Newlon Housing Estate, Rich Mix, Blast Storytelling Club, Earthouse Cranbourne, Fireside Festival, Highgrove, Hackney Library, Kensington Palace, and for NTS Live, Dalston's cool digital radio station.

She also creates unique stories for charities and companies; commissions include Hampton Court Palace, Victoria And Albert Museum, British Museum, 40 Winks Bedtime Stories, World Wildlife Fund, Arts For Human Rights, After Adoption, Radley Handbags, and Selfridges.

nellphoenix.co.uk

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'Kooky, creative, and off the wall.'
Everything Theatre

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-tale, folktale, myth and epic. 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

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

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

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Every month, Crick Crack Club brings its wild haven of fairy-tale, 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.