| Thu Feb 17, 2022 | 7:30pm | £0.00 | Buy Tickets |
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The expected runtime of this event is 45 minutes
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Join a live stream to watch storytellers Tim Ralphs and Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson as they pay tribute to the unnerving Japanese folk custom called The Game of Candles.
Storytellers, Tim Ralphs and Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson, pay tribute to a Japanese folk custom. In Edo period Japan, a night time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon - Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. After each teller finished their story, a candle would be extinguished, plunging the room, by small degrees, into a darkness filled with ever more hungry ghosts...
Ravenous flying heads; demon masks that possess the wearer; faceless ghosts; goblin-rats, women made of snow; seductive statues; warrior monks; abandoned farmhouses; haunted bridges; mountaintops; and lonely roads...
In Edo period Japan, a night time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon - Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. After each teller finished their story, a candle would be extinguished, plunging the room, by small degrees, into a darkness filled with ever more hungry ghosts...
Join superlative storytellers Tim Ralphs and Sarah-Liisa Wilkinson as they pay tribute to this unnerving folk custom.
For ages 14+.
The expected runtime of this event is 45 minutes
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Watch Nell Phoenix perform a live streamed version of her performance in our Woodshed Theatre.
Enjoy a live stream performance from storyteller Emily Hennessey and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee telling tales of the goddess Kali - demon-slayer, life-saver, Supreme-Mother and destruction-dancer.
Watch a live stream performance from our Woodshed Theatre as Daniel Morden conjures a folkloric fever-dream full of the fantastic triumphs and farcical mishaps of a reluctant hero of the people, Conal Crovi, and the wild terrain of a fairytale for grown-ups haunted by an ever elusive Green Man.
