The Unquiet Dead – Brighton Festival Fringe 2012 press pack
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Press release reads as follows:
Storyteller Matthew Bellwood returns to Brighton Fringe with a trio of spooky stories, and a brace of ghostly ballads. Featuring classic tales by M.R. James and Edith Nesbit.
About the show
Leeds-based storyteller Matthew Bellwood brings to life a selection of macabre tales from the golden age of the ghost story. Featuring Lost Hearts – M.R. James’s grisly account of black magic in the Midlands; The Shadow – Edith Nesbitt’s haunting saga of thwarted love; and the anonymously written The New Mother – possibly the world’s most brutal children’s story. Laced together with a thread of black humour and framed by a set of traditional English ghost ballads, these are tales to chill the blood and freeze the marrow.
About me
I am a writer and storyteller based in Leeds. Over the last few years, I have worked everywhere from the Edinburgh Fringe to the International Shakespeare Conference in New Zealand. Along the way, I’ve performed in schools, libraries, theatres and pop-up museums, at DIY rock gigs and, on one memorable occasion, to an audience of 1,200 girl-guides in a tent. When I’m not writing, I run a Theatre In Education company, Moveable Feast Productions, and encourage young children to dress up as Vikings (amongst other things). I also work with local libraries, theatre companies and arts organisations to create and run a wide variety of storytelling projects.
Event details
Show:
The Unquiet Dead (suitable for ages 12+)
When:
1.00pm (duration one hour)
5th, 6th and 7th May 2012
Where:
Upstairs at Three and Ten
10 Steine Street
Brighton, BN2 1TE
Tickets:
£8.00 (£6.50 concessions), Students – £5.00
07800 983 290 (venue box office)
(01273) 709 709 (Dome ticket office)
(01273) 917 272 (Fringe ticket office)
www.upstairsatthreeandten.co.uk
www.brightonfestivalfringe.co.uk
Contact details
Phone: 07779 088 878
Email: matthew@somestories.co.uk
twitter: @PostboxJohn
Press quotes
“Bellwood came across like a foppish Steve Coogan or a thoughtful Mark Gatiss.”
Chris Challis, The Argus
“An engaging and animated story teller who can fire up the imaginations of children and adults alike”
Opera North