Gilgamesh – Performance Storytelling
Front Room Weston-Super-Mare, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1FF
Over 3,500 years after this ancient Sumerian epic was first etched into clay tablets, world renowned storyteller Ben Haggarty, and multi-instrumentalist Jonah Brody, bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary and powerful telling of one of the oldest stories in the world.
The Crick Crack Club presents – GILGAMESH
Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty. Music by Jonah Brody
A bored king
A wild man
A quest for eternal life
And the deepest secrets of the gods
Over 3,500 years after this ancient Sumerian epic was first etched into clay tablets, world renowned storyteller Ben Haggarty, and multi-instrumentalist Jonah Brody, bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary and powerful telling of one of the oldest stories in the world.
Haggarty’s bold and physical performance is underscored by the uncanny psychedelia of Brody’s music. The result is passionate, fast-paced epic, laced with humour.
Goddesses are insulted and appeased by turn, supernatural beings are slain, apocalypse is averted, and our anti-hero turned hero, discovers what it really is to be a man.
‘VIVID, RICH AND IMPOSINGLY EPIC’ ★★★★ Dominic Maxwell, The Times
AN IMMENSE TALENT ★★★★ Everything Theatre
‘I WAS SPELLBOUND – I DON’T USE THE WORD LIGHTLY’ Erica Wagner, The Times
‘BLOODY BRILLIANT’ Time Out
‘STORYTELLING GENIUS’ Brighton Fringe
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