A event held at The Cube on Thursday 9th January. The event starts at 20:00.
The Crick Crack Club presents
GILGAMESH
Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty. Music by Jonah Brody
A bored king
A wild man
A quest for eternal life
And the deepest secrets of the gods
Over 3,500 years after this ancient Sumerian epic was first etched into clay tablets, world renowned storyteller Ben Haggarty, and multi-instrumentalist Jonah Brody, bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary and powerful telling of one of the oldest stories in the world.
Haggarty's bold and physical performance is underscored by the uncanny psychedelia of Brody's music. The result is passionate, fast-paced epic, laced with humour.
Goddesses are insulted and appeased by turn, supernatural beings are slain, apocalypse is averted, and our anti-hero turned hero, discovers what it really is to be a man.
'VIVID, RICH AND IMPOSINGLY EPIC'**** Dominic Maxwell, The Times
'BLOODY BRILLIANT' Time Out
AN IMMENSE TALENT **** Everything Theatre
'I WAS SPELLBOUND - I DON'T USE THE WORD LIGHTLY' Erica Wagner, The Times
'STORYTELLING GENIUS' Brighton Fringe
SUITABLE: adults 14+
RUNNING TIME: 120mins+interval
DOORS: 7.30pm STARTS: 8pm
CONTENT: This performance contains descriptions of sex, prostitution, violence, death, and grief contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
Entry requirements: 14+
GILGAMESH
Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty. Music by Jonah Brody
A bored king
A wild man
A quest for eternal life
And the deepest secrets of the gods
Over 3,500 years after this ancient Sumerian epic was first etched into clay tablets, world renowned storyteller Ben Haggarty, and multi-instrumentalist Jonah Brody, bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary and powerful telling of one of the oldest stories in the world.
Haggarty's bold and physical performance is underscored by the uncanny psychedelia of Brody's music. The result is passionate, fast-paced epic, laced with humour.
Goddesses are insulted and appeased by turn, supernatural beings are slain, apocalypse is averted, and our anti-hero turned hero, discovers what it really is to be a man.
'VIVID, RICH AND IMPOSINGLY EPIC'**** Dominic Maxwell, The Times
'BLOODY BRILLIANT' Time Out
AN IMMENSE TALENT **** Everything Theatre
'I WAS SPELLBOUND - I DON'T USE THE WORD LIGHTLY' Erica Wagner, The Times
'STORYTELLING GENIUS' Brighton Fringe
SUITABLE: adults 14+
RUNNING TIME: 120mins+interval
DOORS: 7.30pm STARTS: 8pm
CONTENT: This performance contains descriptions of sex, prostitution, violence, death, and grief contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
Entry requirements: 14+
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