Performance storytelling and music by: Kersti Ståbi.

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Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who had everything, except for a child. This is the very ordinary beginning to one of the wildest of Scandinavian fairytales.

Tatterhood - the wild twin, the unintended progeny, the loose cannon, the protector. Tatterhood, the hairy girl, thunders into the world on her goat, armed with a wooden spoon, beating up troll hags, saving her sister from a grim destiny, and using all her cunning to carve out a future for them both.

Kersti Ståbi remixes this primal tale of wonder with the sheer force of Japanese taiko drumming. The result is power and beauty in equal measure.

NB: The performance involves taiko drumming in quite a small space - those sensitive to loud noise levels are advised not to attend.

Director: Abbi Patrix
Taiko consultant: John Bolwell

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains descriptions of childlessness, childbirth, beheading, and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.

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KERSTI STÅBI

Kersti Ståbi is a Swedish singer and storyteller, founding member of the Fabula Storytelling Company, Stockholm, and manager of the Modesty Music modern folk music record label (modestymusic.se). She has told stories across the globe, creating performances with Gävle Symphony Orchestra, folk music trio Nordic and Norrlands Opera. Performances include Ingeland, a story written by the much-loved poet and singer-songwriter Alf Hambe, filled with his songs and poems. Albums include Egentligen (2005) and Ute Blåser Sommarvind (2008), in which Kersti sings the works of Alice Tegnér, Sweden's much-loved composer of children's music from the 19th century. Recently she performed the Eddic poem Voluspá in Old Norse across Europe, with a grand finale hosted by the Crick Crack Club at the British Museum. Kersti has toured extensively in Norway with Hardanger fiddle player Knut Hamre and pianist Anne Nitter Sandvik. In 2010-2011, Kersti sang in Cirque Du Soleil's Tokyo show Zed, dangling on a wire 80 feet up in the air, performing as the Goddess of Goddesses.

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CRICK CRACK CLUB

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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

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