Sensational Summer Stories
Throughout Family Fun week as part of Watch This Space festival, NT Discover presents a series of summer storytelling performances in a brand new inflatable auditorium. Within the dome’s squashy walls, some of the most excellent and engaging storytellers will transport you on wonderful journeys to delight the mind and thrill the imagination. The inimitable Jan Blake and Daniel Morden will be amongst those telling their tales, along with many other fine purveyors of fantasy and enchantment.
So that everyone can join in the fun:
Mornings are for 5-7 year olds Small Stories - performance dates and times (12-16 August)
Running time 30 mins.
Buy tickets £3
Afternoons are for 8-11 year olds Tall Stories - performances dates and times (12-15 August)
Running time 30 mins
Buy tickets £3
Evenings are special sessions of a more grown-up nature, for ages 18+ Stories with an Edge - performance dates and times (12-15 August)
Running time 45 mins.
Buy tickets £5
Find out more about all the Watch This Space events happening during family week.
Storytelling performer biographies:
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Daniel Morden and Oliver Wilson-Dickson
Daniel Morden and Oliver Wilson-Dickson
Daniel Morden (story) and Oliver Wilson-Dickson (violin) tell tales your ears have never seen and your eyes have never heard. Expect verbal gymnastics and aural pyrotechincs from Wales' finest story and music duo.
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Ben Haggarty
Ben Haggarty
Master of improvisation and renowned for his dynamic performances, Ben Haggarty is a world-class performance storyteller, whose work delights and subverts audiences across the English-speaking world.
'He knows how to harness the audience's imagination offering up the story's epic twists and turns.' The Times
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Peter Chand
Peter Chand
Indian Storyteller Peter Chand was born and bred in the Midlands with family roots in the Punjab region of India. Peter's work has been described as a seamless blending of two cultures, and his tales are full of wit, wisdom and everyday folk caught up in extraordinary situations.
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Vergine Gulbenkian
Vergine Gulbenkian
Vergine's family originate from Turkish Armenia. Vergine Gulbenkian began storytelling in 1991 after she saw performances that touched her to the core. Bringing her stories to life with every performance, Vergine opens the door to a treasure house of traditional tales that are full of charm and humour.
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Jan Blake
Jan Blake
Jan is one of Britain's outstanding female storytellers, performing in theatres and festivals throughout the world. Born in Manchester, of Jamaican parentage she specialises in stories from Africa and the Caribbean. Jan's witty and exhilarating storytelling enables her to seize any stage, weaving words and music in dynamic performances.
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Nick Hennessey
Nick Hennessey
Nick has performed throughout the UK, in venues such as The Albert Hall, The South Bank and The Lowry in Manchester and across the world with tours in Canada, Japan, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland. A harper and wordsmith with a love for stories, ballads and music, Nick is a powerful and passionate performer forging and twisting together the song, the poem, the note and the spoken word into a bridge broad enough for all.
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Xanthe Gresham
Xanthe Gresham
Xanthe Gresham's unique style is highly kinaesthetic delighting in the absurd, the preposterous and the poetic! ‘With a few props, exquisite timing and a few rhythmic repetitions, the stories were bought to life to beautiful effect' The Times
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Shonaleigh Cumbers
Shonaleigh Cumbers
With a repertoire of over three thousand stories, Shonaleigh Cumbers has performed globally, drawing on her Yiddish, English and European Culture. As one of the foremost Tellers on the British scene she enables you to enter a world of image with breathtaking vividness.
