presented by The Crick Crack Club
Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes, including a 20 minute interval.
Suitable for Grown-Ups (16+)*
charity. comedy. family. live music. opera. play. poetry. storytelling.
Fairytales for Grown-Ups
The Thief’s Tale by Daniel Morden
Strange Girls, Beautiful Monsters by Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Surrender to a full-blooded performance of fairytales for grown-ups. Sarah Liisa Wilkinson invites you to meet some very strange girls and some very beguiling monsters from the fairytale forest, and Daniel Morden conjures a folkloric fever-dream full of the fantastic triumphs and farcical mishaps of a reluctant hero of the people, Conal Crovi.
“To experience Daniel Morden in full flight is an amazing thing”
“Full of suspense and drama”
Strange Girls. Beautiful Monsters.
A girl enters the woods clutching a skull with burning eyes
Another tumbles out of a barrel and falls in love
A third erupts into the world riding a goat
One more opens a forbidden door...
Sarah Liisa Wilkinson invites you to meet some very strange girls and some very beguiling monsters from the fairytale forest. This is a world of Baba Yagas, bloodstained dolls, spoon-wielding sisters, lovestruck trolls, and lovers who hide monstrous secrets behind their charms.
Dark, funny and enchanted–these are stories with iron teeth.
*Content Warning: This performance contains descriptions of death, sex, threat and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
The Thief’s Tale
What would drive you to theft?
...hunger?
...vengeance?
...to save a life?
Throw caution to the wind with Daniel Morden as he conjures a folkloric fever-dream full of the fantastic triumphs and farcical mishaps of a reluctant hero of the people. Expect absurd tales of wool pulling, boat rocking, petty theft and grand larceny in this comic and creepy show, complete with giant cow-eating cats!
Brimming with wild legend, low cunning, high drama and last-minute escapes from certain death come and shake a fist at the ludicrous order of things...
*Content Warning: The content contains mythic and metaphorical imagery presented within a darkly comic narrative that includes threat, murder, burial alive, cannibalism, infant mutilation.
Why not plan ahead and book a delicious picnic? Local supper club Husk delivers delightful, gourmet picnics to our picnic field one hour before your show - menu and booking here.
