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Theatre Friday 24 March, 2023 7:30pm

Orpheus Dismembered

THE CRICK CRACK CLUB PRESENTS

ORPHEUS DISMEMBERED

TICKETS £12, Sup

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 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…
Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty
Music by Jonah Brody
Orpheus Dismembered
Suitable for adults (16+)
Content warning: Please be advised that this performance is based on raw Greek mythology and includes moments of violence, incest, rape, dismemberment, infanticide, alcoholic intoxication, cannibalism and death, alongside moments of beauty, magic, wonder, transformation and life.
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Reviews

'BLOODY BRILLIANT'

Time Out

'Ben Haggarty is a monumentally effective storyteller...the moment heopens 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

A TOUR-DE-FORCE OF STORYTELLING ★★★★

Remote Goat

'STORYTELLING GENIUS'

Brighton Fringe

‘I WAS SPELL-BOUND, I DON’T USE THE WORD LIGHTLY’

The Times

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