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Fri 03 May

Dreaming The Great Bear – The Kalevala

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1 Performance
All Evening Matinee

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Times
 7:45pm

Running Time 1 hour

Venue Studio, York Theatre Royal

Age 14+

Price Standard £19, Under 16 £12

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Content Warning: This performance may contain descriptions of birth, death, sex, threat and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.

Dreaming The Great Bear – The Kalevala

Fri 03 May

More Details + Book Tickets

Dates

Fri 03 May

Times

7:45pm

Running Time

1 hour

Venue

Studio, York Theatre Royal

Age

14+

Price

Standard £19, Under 16 £12

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Book Tickets

The Crick Crack Club presents Dreaming the Great Bear - the Kalevala, by Nick Hennessey

A cow stands in a fire holding sun and moon between her horns.

A pine martin gathers spit from the mouth of a bear to brew beer.

An egg falls from a nest just balanced on the sky-girl’s knee.

And from its broken shards, nothing becomes something….

Storyteller, musician and singer, Nick Hennessey forges a world into being. Here in the Finnish far north the light is a just little too bright and the dark a little too blinding, the rivers flow fast and deep, and it’s all too easy to get lost in the forest.

Held within a wild enchanted soundscape of story, song, percussion, mbira, and harp – this remarkable performance of elemental epic lures us into the untamed, playful, and surreal territories of the Finnish creation myth – the Kalevala.

'captivating, powerful, perfect'

Oxford Culture Review

'a rare combination of artistic adventure and absolute accessibility…magical’

London Literature Festival

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