Performance storytelling by: Daniel Morden and Laura Sampson.

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Heed the call of the weird, where ancient folklore meets modern fear. Dive into the eerie, the unsettling, and the spine-tingling world of folk horror stories told by the exceedingly fine Laura Sampson and Daniel Morden.

Lonely forests, foolhardy pacts, shapeshifters, unquiet graves, and ominous prophecies - the folk and fairytales of our ancestors are bound with the traces of old superstition, twisted ritual, cult, curses and archaic customs.

These stories tap into forgotten fears that never stay buried - leaving you questioning what’s lurking just beyond the edge of your reality. It's not about whether something's out there, it's about when it's going to find you.

Are you ready to face the darkness? Don't expect happily ever after!

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains gore, black magic, murder, mutilation, and coercive control within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.

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DANIEL MORDEN

'One of the UK’s finest storytellers.'
BBC Radio 3

Daniel Morden has been a professional teller of traditional tales since 1989. He has travelled all over the world, from the Arctic to the Pacific to the Caribbean, sharing and collecting stories. He has appeared at the National Theatre, Hay Festival, The National Storytelling Festival Of America, WOMAD, many theatres, arts centres, festivals... and thousands of schools. In 2017 he was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for his services to storytelling. He has written several award-winning anthologies of traditional stories, including Dark Tales From The Woods. He also coaches storytellers and teaches an annual beginners weekend at Ty Newydd Writer’s Centre.

danielmorden.org

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LAURA SAMPSON

Storyteller, singer, Japanese Noh dance-drama performer and student of East Asian performance and mythology, Laura Sampson revels in stark Japanese horror stories and grand gothic tales.

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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.