Saturday 5th May – Monday 7th May
Brighton Festival Fringe
I’ll be performing at the wonderful Brighton Fringe again in May. The show is called The Unquiet Dead and is a collection of spooky Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories, interspersed with some traditional English ghost ballads.
Tuesday 13th of March 2012
Be Prepared
I’ll be performing Be Prepared at the Carriageworks Theatre in Leeds. The show starts at 7:45pm and last for just over an hour. Be Prepared is featured as part of the theatre’s Made in Yorkshire season. Tickets are priced at £9 (£7 concessions).
Tuesday 6th of March 2012
The Unquiet Dead
I’ll be performing a set of Ghost Stories and ballads at Lees Library in Oldham between 6:00pm and 7:00pm. This is part of an ongoing programme of storytelling events that is running throughout the year.
Monday 13th of February
I’ll be telling stories for the under 7s at the opening of the newly refurbished Headingley Library today from 2pm. This is as part of Leeds City Council’s Love Your Libraries Initiative. The workshop will include a telling of the story Ewungelama! and I’ll also be running some drama activities as well as a mask and puppet-making session. Attendance is free and older brothers and sisters are very welcome to come along too.
Friday 3rd of February
I’ll be performing STORIES FOR LUNCH at Leeds Metropolitan University. This is special FREE EVENT as part of National Storytelling Week.
The show will take place at 1pm at the Café Gallery, Broadcasting Place (just behind reception).
I’ll be telling a whole range of different stories and taking questions at the end of the session.
There’s no need to book in advance, just come along and settle in. If anyone would like any further info, you can get in touch with the organiser, Lisa Samson via e-mail: l.samson @ leedsmet.ac.uk
Sunday 8th of January, 2012
ELFM – Word Salad
I’ll be telling a version of the Lay of Rig on ELFM’s wonderful Word Salad programme. The theme of the show this time is “class” and the story concerns the origin of the different races of men in Norse society – the thralls, the karls and the jarls. The show’s host, Peter Spafford, has the following to say:
“This month’s Word Salad takes on the thorny theme of Class. Do you say serviette or paper napkin? Do you put the milk in first and tea in second? Is class still a relevant term? What do the words Chav and Posh mean? Pick up your coffee cup and stick your little finger out – tune in to The Word Salad.
This time we will be hosting a team of actors reading scenes and sketches, plus apposite passages from ‘the classics’. There will be phone interviews with teen fiction writer Melvin Burgess, stories from Matthew Bellwood, and our guest writer will be Frances McNeil, author of the Kate Shackleton – Leeds detective books. Plus discussion from John Smeaton High School about what young people reckon to Class…”
The show goes out live from 5-7pm and you can listen to it on-line at: http://www.elfm.co.uk/