Fairytales For Grown-ups: Uncanny

The Crick Crack Club presentsuncannyPerformance storytelling by Nell Phoenix‘I heard a whining voice but saw no body in the room’‘We saw her and we saw right through her’‘I blinked just once and he had changed his shape’Nell paces a path from dusty Mesopotamia, to Ancient Egypt, through London’s Bloomsbury, along a dingy road in Guatemala at dawn, and back to her own kitchen table - gathering up disturbing, unsettling, baffling, bewildering, sinister, UNCANNY stories.These are not literary tales crafted to scare you.

These are not folktales, bloody fairytales, or urban myths.

These are spine-tingling tales told as true by one of the UK’s most popular and dynamic storytellers.Who are these witnesses of these other-worldly acts? Why did they tell their stories? And do we believe in ghosts?‘She picks through her tale like a mountain goat skipping up a cliff face’ London City Nights‘A mercurial and captivating performer’ Dave FarnogliRUNNING TIME: Approx. 75 minutes without intervalSUITABLE FOR adults 14+CONTENT This performance contains references to the supernatural, threat, death and dying, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphorPresented by Folklore Hoxton.This is an 18+ event