| Thu Feb 17, 2022 | 7:30pm | £12.00 | Buy Tickets |
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The expected runtime of this event is 45 minutes
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+.
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The expected runtime of this event is 45 minutes
Nell Phoenix strays from the path in search of young, and not so young, ladies who have played in the woods, broken the rules, and ultimately get the upper hand when things go horribly wrong.
