Orpheus Dismembered
The Crick Crack Club presents Orpheus Dismembered
Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty
Music by Jonah Brody
No remembering without forgetting
No rebirth without death
No ascent without descent
These are the mysteries.
Storyteller Ben Haggarty and musician Jonah Brody become guides to the dark places. Enter a subterranean dreamscape to meet Dionysus - God of Wine, born once from his mother and again from Zeus; Orpheus who can only find love through separation; Eurydice and Persephone eternally bound to the land of the dead; and Aphrodite scattering the seeds of chaos through which we must wade to find sense.
Ben Haggarty reads between the lines of Greek Mythology to restores them to their terrifying and truly awesome glory. This is world-class storytelling - dark, magical, and provocative.
Whatever you do - don't look back...
'BLOODY BRILLIANT' Time Out
'A KIND OF HYPNOSES' Alice Oswald, The Guardian
A TOUR-DE-FORCE OF STORYTELLING ★★★★ Remote Goat
'STORYTELLING GENIUS' ★★★★★ Brighton Fringe
I WAS SPELL-BOUND, I DONT USE THE WORD LIGHTLY The Times
Ben Haggarty is a monumentally effective storytellerthe moment he opens his mouth he has the audience in the palm of his hand. Then, slowly, he closes that palm into a fist, squeezing us, cranking up the tension, etching vivid pictures into our imagination ★★★★ London City Nights
Ben Haggarty is celebrated for his uncompromising, elemental channelling of Greek Mythology.Jonah Brody is a multi-instrumentalist through whom music pours into the world.
SUITABLE FOR:adults (16+)
RUNNING TIME:60mins+50mins+interval
CONTENT: This performance is based on raw Greek mythology and includes descriptions of violence, incest, rape, dismemberment, infanticide, intoxication, cannibalism and death, alongside moments of beauty, magic, wonder, transformation and life, all contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
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