A event held at The Cube on Thursday 14th December. The event starts at 20:00.
GAWAIN & THE GREEN KNIGHT by MARTIN SHAW
A Christmas game,
a perilous quest,
a test within a test…
Martin Shaw brings us a new telling of Gawain & the Green Knight. A young knight rides out into the British Otherworld to encounter more than he ever could have bargained for.
Expect drama, romance, and the high magic of the Arthurian tradition.
‘An outrageous piece of magic’ DAVID ABRAM
‘A true master’ ROBERT BLY
‘Visceral and highly imaginative’ THE INDEPENDENT
MARTIN SHAW is a mythologist, author and storyteller and is regarded as one of the most outstanding new teachers of the mythic imagination. Visiting fellow at Schumacher college in the U.K., he founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University, and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. Author of the award winning; A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower and the upcoming Scatterlings, he leads a bustling schedule of conferences, gatherings and wilderness retreats over several continents.
SUITABLE: adults 14+
RUNNING TIME: 60mins
DOORS: 7.30pm STARTS: 8pm
CONTENT WARNING: This performance contains descriptions of sex, threat, and death contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
Entry requirements:
A Christmas game,
a perilous quest,
a test within a test…
Martin Shaw brings us a new telling of Gawain & the Green Knight. A young knight rides out into the British Otherworld to encounter more than he ever could have bargained for.
Expect drama, romance, and the high magic of the Arthurian tradition.
‘An outrageous piece of magic’ DAVID ABRAM
‘A true master’ ROBERT BLY
‘Visceral and highly imaginative’ THE INDEPENDENT
MARTIN SHAW is a mythologist, author and storyteller and is regarded as one of the most outstanding new teachers of the mythic imagination. Visiting fellow at Schumacher college in the U.K., he founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University, and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. Author of the award winning; A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower and the upcoming Scatterlings, he leads a bustling schedule of conferences, gatherings and wilderness retreats over several continents.
SUITABLE: adults 14+
RUNNING TIME: 60mins
DOORS: 7.30pm STARTS: 8pm
CONTENT WARNING: This performance contains descriptions of sex, threat, and death contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
Entry requirements:
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