A young Norfolk woman runs away from home in search of love, work and a new place to live.
She gets as far as Liverpool Street Station, where things start to get a little weird…
A modern day Wizard of Oz, ‘There’s No Place Like Cromer’ is a magical journey of selfdiscovery.
It explores the pull between the bright lights of London and rural Norfolk, and asks ‘why do we ever leave
home?’
Expect the unexpected…and some familiar sounding ole Norfolk folk!
Scintillating, satirical, playful stories come together with enchanting music
for an evening of madcap humour. Three tales about the world we live in
and the lives we are speeding towards. A woman escapes domestic
drudgery into the wild magic of the woods. A talented singer is swamped by social media obsession. And two sisters escape a zero-waste, wellbeing-obsessed culture into a community of misfits and outcasts.
Told with energy and verve, these stories are sure to entertain. All the while asking whether there might not be a little more to life than this.
“A simply outstanding show in the delivery of multiple skills, classic storytelling and madcap humour” Fringe Review
“Enchanting, funny and captivating! Grace and Chloe cleverly combine storytelling, movement and drama into a wholly contemporary and modern piece of theatre revealing issues of our time in a magical way!” Audience Feedback – Daisy Squires, BAFTA Award winning TV producer for BBC.
‘Stop Trying to be Fantastic’ is a story about suffering, and the lengths we go to to avoid it. It charts one human’s attempts to win at life via a range of adventurous mistakes. It’s about getting stuck between what we owe to each other and what we owe to ourselves.
From award-winning writer/performer Molly Naylor (Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You, Sky One’s After Hours) comes this lyrical and funny spoken-word show about ambition, altruism and how to be medium good.
Molly Naylor is a writer, performer and director. She is the creator and co-writer and creator of Sky One comedy After Hours. Theatre work include Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You (writer/performer), My Robot Heart (writer/performer) and LIGHTS! PLANETS! PEOPLE! (writer/director). Her debut poetry collection Badminton is published by Burning Eye. She is the co-director of sell-out storytelling night True Stories Live.
‘Brave, funny, tough and beautiful writing’
– The Guardian
The Grimm Sisters are here to set the record straight. Join them on
the journey as they tell their twisted tales with a marvellous mix of
comedy, singing & live music.
This year, Scratchworks takes you by the socially-distanced hand &
leads you gently outdoors to discover a joyful & mischievous
interruption to the everyday.
Lusciously lyrical and sublimely subversive, Suki Silvertongue straddles the worlds of poetry and storytelling, serving up deliciously decadent versions of classic tales as you’ve never heard them before. Journey with Suki into a fantasy realm filled with kick-ass heroines, wondrous creatures, poetic justice and unexpected twists that is as timeless as it is bang up to date. Where traditional tales meet contemporary themes to dance the tango with a rose between gritted teeth. With an a la carte menu featuring such tantalising treats as ‘Rapunzel’s Lady Garden of Love’, ‘Titania’s
Bottom’ and ‘Lady Victoria Frankenstein’, you’ll be spoilt for choice and hungry for more!
“What a performance! Suki Silvertongue is beguiling, engaging,
entertaining, intelligent, witty, funny and very, very saucy. Everyone who
was there asks weekly when she is coming back. Her performance is
spoken word art for grown-ups, and you are guaranteed to laugh and
laugh and laugh” Geoff Dixon, The Burston Crown
“A natural storyteller with a wickedly whimsical view of the world. Book
her. I did, and will do so again as soon as humanly possible.” Paul Preston- Mills, Programmer for the ‘Adult Creche’ for Culture Works East, Latitude
2017
Scintillating, satirical, playful stories come together with enchanting music
for an evening of madcap humour. Three tales about the world we live in
and the lives we are speeding towards. A woman escapes domestic
drudgery into the wild magic of the woods. A talented singer is swamped by social media obsession. And two sisters escape a zero-waste, wellbeing-obsessed culture into a community of misfits and outcasts.
Told with energy and verve, these stories are sure to entertain. All the while asking whether there might not be a little more to life than this.
“A simply outstanding show in the delivery of multiple skills, classic storytelling and madcap humour” Fringe Review
“Enchanting, funny and captivating! Grace and Chloe cleverly combine storytelling, movement and drama into a wholly contemporary and modern piece of theatre revealing issues of our time in a magical way!” Audience Feedback – Daisy Squires, BAFTA Award winning TV producer for BBC.
Back in Georgian times we got our news from poetry. Before papers, broadcasts or the internet, ballad sellers would hawk their doggerel on street corners for a penny. Scandalous affairs, grisly crimes, and colourful characters were brought to life in rhyming verse long before first tabloid was printed.
Now Luke Wright has rewritten the very best of these stories for the modern ear: take a trip through the Drury Lane gin shops with the Boxing Baroness; filch oysters by the dozen with Dando, the celebrated gormandiser; and escape the Bull Ring with Jemmy the Rockman. Expect scandal, excess, and beautiful flawed humanity.
“His performances rumble with rage, passion and humour. They are also peppered with brilliantly smart observations. You will leave his show brimming with energy, heart pounding and brain whirring.” The Guardian
‘Expertly performed and stupidly entertaining’ – The Guardian One show.
Three actors. All the Greek myths. Legendary heroes, psychotic dragons and randy gods go head-to-head in a hilarious and unforgettable journey.
An anarchic blend of comedy, clowning, stories and songs, Unmythable returns to the UK after a sell-out European tour and award-winning runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe. Prepare to be a legend.
Unmythable has toured throughout the world, playing at major festivals and village halls across the UK, Europe and New Zealand. It’s a brilliant show for rural touring as it creates a real sense of communal fun and has the perfect blend of comedy, drama and music to entertain everyone.
After almost twenty years touring the planet as a circus strong lady, performing feats-of-strength, Charmaine
Childs is creating a circus-theatre show that celebrates the extraordinary ways in which ordinary people are
powerful. POWER uses circus physicality and verbal storytelling to explore how we can feel powerful in an
uncertain world & find strength beyond just lifting heavy things.
The work is optimistic, uplifting, funny, physical and at times moving. Autobiography intersects with stories
from interviews with real people around the UK about their experiences of power, with their voices woven
through the soundtrack to reveal moments of strength, resilience, connection, choice and change.
“Power” was the winning application for a joint commission between Creative Arts East and Cambridge
Junction and we are so excited to see the whole show on tour. Charmaine can also provide additional audience
offers from pre-show engagement and story sharing to post-show Q&A / discussions, just ask for details.
Described as “Downton Abbey with gardening tips”, Old Herbaceous is the humorous love story of a singleminded yet gentle man with a passion for plants and is a charming one man play which has entranced sellout audiences all around the country over the last four years.
An acute and sometimes hilarious observation of relationships between the classes in a simpler age, sprinkled with witticisms and epithets. The evening blossoms into tender humour, much in the traditionally understated English style of the early 20th century.
As Old Herbaceous, renowned actor Giles Shenton truly lives the part of the legendary Head Gardener, Herbert Pinnegar, inviting you to feel included in a private chat from a bygone, comforting age. Keeping you engrossed, amused and emotionally engaged from start to finish, Old Herbaceous will leave you with a feeling that, perhaps, all’s right with the world.
