Shows

Details of previous performances and shows available. For clips and more information on individual shows, click the detail.

Dreaming the Great Bear

Or, How the World was Made. Timeless stories, songs and music from the Finno-Ugric imagination.

Over & Nether

 A celebration of Alderley Edge and Alan Garner’s work, life and landscape through story and music.

The Whispering Road

A riotous roller-coaster of a story, soaring from tenderness to wild hilarity, all in a perfectly formed folk tale.

The Ruined House of Skin

This story of a great search and the ultimate journey, is a reconfiguration of wild Irish mythology that lays bare our thirst for truth.

The Liberty Tree

A celebration of Robin Hood & the ancient tradition of English dissent. Commissioned with Hugh Lupton.

Barbed wire for kisses

A performance oin which the narratives of families in one small community tell the bigger story of the First World War.

The Howken Field

A Reiver’s Tale. Existing between worlds, between laws, the Scottish Borders are mysterious, a place of secrets.

A Harper’s Trade

Drawing from traditional sources, this performance of song and story re-interprets the material for a modern 21st century.

Where the Bear Sleeps

Telling the story of the stealing of the sun and moon, and their imprisonment in the northern mountain.

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