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Crick Crack Club presents:

LUCY LILL/SARAH LIISA WILKINSON: QUEEN OF BETWEEN

Fairytales For Grown-Ups

Doors open: 7.30pm | Event starts: 8pm | Running time: 80 minutes (no interval) | Suitable for: adults 14+

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Thu 12 December // 20:00 (SOLD OUT)

Tickets: £12

Performance storytelling by: Lucy Lill and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson

An utterly compelling night of storytelling by two fine artists, bringing the multifaceted goddess and symbol of duality, Hecate, to the fore; with passion, intensity, vivid imagery, and shards of humour. By turns, enchanting and enthralling, powerful and poetic, spellbinding and subverting.

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What happens...
When the goddess of childbirth crosses her legs?
When you're bound above chaos with golden threads?
When the weight of your grief means you can't walk on?
When you're neither living or dead so you don't fit in?
When you're... stuck?

That's when you need Hecate: Queen Of Between, many-shaped and multi-tasking goddess of birth, death, witches, weasels, hellhounds, crossroads, thresholds, and ghosts.

Barking at her heels, Lucy Lill and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson take up their torches, jangle their keys and bring you stories of letting go, squeezing through and moving on.

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains descriptions of, and references to, child birth, child loss, infanticide, sexual references, threat, death, biting, and scenes of restraint/confinement contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype, and metaphor.


LUCY LILL

Lucy Lill is a performance storyteller based in London. She has told stories in museums, theatres, festivals, schools, and fields up and down the country for organisations like the Crick Crack Club, Kew Gardens, The Wellcome Collection, Half Moon Children's Theatre, Beyond The Border, and many others. She co-produces events with Alys Torrance as Story Jam and is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins. Lucy is currently touring with Story Jam: 'Women Who Gave No F***s'.

'Delightful and charismatic.'
Time Out

lucylill.com

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SARAH LIISA WILKINSON

Half-English and half-Finnish, storyteller Sarah Lisa Wilkinson is one of the brightest new talents to emerge in British storytelling. She delights audiences with her always engaging, energetic and playful performance style. She has a particular interest in the folktales and myths of Finland and other Nordic lands, but loves to tell tales from all around the world.

She has trained as a performer with Philippe Gaulier, and as a storyteller with Nell Phoenix and Ben Haggarty. She has told stories nationally and internationally to audiences in clubs, pubs, festivals, churches, front rooms and all-night sleepovers. She is a member of The Embers Collective, a London-based storytelling and music group.

★★★★☆
'Magical storytelling.'
Everything Theatre

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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 fairytale, 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.

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

crickcrackclub.com

Every month, Crick Crack Club brings its wild haven of fairytale, 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.