Performance storytelling by: Lucy Lill.

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Possessed by gods?
Off their heads on laughing gas?
The mouthpieces of the state?
Or the ancient world's most influential influencers?

The prophecies of the Sibyls thread through ancient myth. Feared, revered and frequently misunderstood, the Sibyls stood at the crossroads of religion, politics and performance. Their visions promised answers while leaving everyone wondering what they actually meant.

From a mountain in the southeast of Italy to the depths of the underworld, Lucy Lill tells the stories of the women whose words founded cities, brought down armies and caused an epic amount of confusion.

She might know your future, but that doesn't mean she's going to tell you...

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CONTENT WARNING: this performance contains references to ageism, implied sexual assault, kidnap, and animal cruelty contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype, and metaphor.

LUCY LILL

Lucy Lill is a performance storyteller based in London. She works extensively at the Half Moon Children's Theatre in Limehouse, East London; Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London; the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol; Kew Gardens; the Wellcome Collection; Newbury Corn Exchange; the Beyond The Border Storytelling Festival, Wales; and at storytelling nights across the UK. She has told tales regularly for The Embers Collective, a storytelling and music collective based in London, and co-produces the ACE-funded show, Women Who Gave No F*cks with Alys Torrance as part of Story Jam. Lucy tells stories in primary and secondary schools across London, Greek and Roman myths for The Latin Programme, and stories from all over the world for the National Literacy Trust.

'Delightful and charismatic​.'
Time Out

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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.

crickcrackclub.com

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

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'Unmissable... magical performances in unique venues... chilling, mystifying, adventurous and romantic.'
Everything Theatre

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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.