7pm Thursday 30th April 2026 at Leicester Guildhall
Tim Ralphs - How to Spin Enchantment
Adapted from The Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales, these high-energy, whimsical, funny wonder tales are cleverly intertwined and a lot of fun.
Spin and weave the tangled roving into one thread of magic. Snap the scissors shut right before the happily ever after. 17th Century Italian Giambattista Basile travelled from Venice to Naples collecting the most marvellous fairytales.
Tim Ralphs (British Award for Storytelling Excellence winner 2012, **** Fringe Guru, Edinburgh Fringe 2014) rouses them from their inky sleep in a joyful performance that dances from the frivolous to the magical. This is a panoply of some of the most lyrical, characterful and hysterical fairytale stories ever offered up for performance. Seven Godmothers, a sleeping Prince, a weeping girl and an enchanted doll that makes its owner crave more stories. MORE STORIES!
Booking HERE
7pm Thursday 28th May 2026 at Leicester Guildhall
Simon Haywood - Strange Majesty: l
Legends of Vortigern and the Forgotten Kings of Britain
... they rode there, helmed
With a strange majesty that the heathen horde
Remembered after all were overwhelmed ...
The famous tales of Arthur are only one small part of a long cycle of legends of
the kings of ancient Britain: tales of heroes and villains, courage and cowardice,
glory and crime, and triumph, tragedy and treason, stretching down
generations, coming to a head in a final war between the Britons and the
seaborne Saxon invaders. Award-winning writer and storyteller Simon Heywood
combines music, song and storytelling to bring new life to a forgotten treasure trove
of tales, remembering the strange majesty of the kings of Albion, from
Brutus to Belin, Locrin to Lear, Arthur, Merlin and Vortigern.
"One of the English storytelling scene's top hands" - Stirrings
Strange Majesty is a companion piece to Simon Heywood's book The Legend of
Vortigern, published in 2013 by the History Press as part of their Ancient
Legends Retold series.
Booking HERE