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The Crick Crack Club Presents: Fairytales for Grown-ups - The Winner Takes It All

Live from The Story Museum's Woodshed Theatre, the Crick Crack presents music, myth and fairytale for grown-ups by Pandvani108 ensemble with storytellers Ben Haggarty, Emily Hennessey and Steph Brittain with soundtracks by Raoul Neumann, Sheema Mukherjee and Rav Neiyyar.

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A goddess sealed in a cave
Voices in the dark
Drunken gods
Flying babies
The winner takes it all.

Tricksters, deities, strange childhoods, complicated marriages, and cosmic crises collide in the hands of the ever-exuberant Pandvani108 ensemble! World-class storytellers Ben Haggarty, Emily Hennessey and Steph Brittain set a high energy performance of wild myth and fairytale for grown-ups against stunning soundtracks by Raoul Neumann (Trans-Siberian March Band), Sheema Mukherjee (Transglobal Underground & The Imagined Village), and Rav Neiyyar (Bollywood Brass Band & Transglobal Underground).

Expect high comedy, wild drama, divine deception, and all things bloody beautiful, as this ever-popular troupe summon the ancient gods and monsters of Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, Iceland and more – mashing-up myth to ask what it is that we really, really want...

RUNNING TIME: approx. 120mins plus interval

storytelling fairytales myth

Restrictions

Adults (ages 16+)

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CONTENT WARNING: This performance may contain descriptions of birth, death, sex, threat and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.