Acclaimed performance storyteller Ben Haggarty, and musician-composer Sherry Robinson make a sortie into the unfathomable mysteries of the heart to ask ‘do we choose love, or does love choose us?’ This physical, brooding and compelling performance is full of mythic beauty – underscored by cello, accordion and hammer dulcimer – rich, alluring and stunningly composed.
In an unashamedly romantic exploration of the intoxication and brutality of love, lust and betrayal, it draws together comedic games in paradise, a broken vow of chastity, a reunion in death, and culminates in an extraordinary retelling of a seemingly familiar fairytale for grown-ups, which will creep into your waking dream and haunt you with its beauty.
Full of exquisite joy and pain – just like the real thing.
This performance is part of
The Crick Crack Club
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A Thousand and One Nights
22 May 2012
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