Storytelling at the Feast of Fools: DEBS NEWBOLD "Dauntless"
Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen
Presented by: Storytelling at the Feast of Fools| 0 | NORTHAMPTON: Quaker Meeting House (info) |
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| P | Wednesday 4th December, 2024 |
| N | Door time: 7:00pm Start time: 7:30pm |
| . | 16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult) |
| C | Theatre |
Event information
We at Storytelling at the Feast of Fools are over the moon to have booked Debs Newbold for a return visit!
This time she gleefully delivers the boisterous, remarkable and inspirational story of her hero: Grainne ni Mhaille – Grace O’Malley – legendary Irish clan chief and queen of the sea.
Expect vibrant energy and joyful, compelling and no-holds-barred storytelling!
Stowing away aboard her father’s ship aged 8, Grace became a 16th century force of nature. A multilingual, seafaring weapons expert, leader of 2000 men, rebel, politician, kingmaker and slayer, prodigious lover, avenging hero and notorious pirate. Best of all, she was real.
From the west of Ireland to the court of Elizabeth I, from wild youth to even wilder old age, Dauntless is an epic celebration of uproarious storytelling, high drama and one fascinating 16th century feminist. No knights in shining armour need apply.
It was after seeing Debs at the Festival at the Edge that we first invited her to Northampton, when she blew us away with her solo telling of Shakespeare’s Lear in 2017.
With a CV including Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, Hay Festival and United Nations she’s a performer in great demand – her appearance here is seriously not to be missed!
Guidance note from Debs “This performance may contain descriptions of birth, postnatal bleeding, sex, violence and death, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.”
We recommend age 15+
What they said of Debs’ performances:
★★★★“energising and entrancing” - Hector Gilchrist, eFestivals
“sensational … a superb storyteller” – Crick Crack Club
“a master of words and space” – StageTalk Magazine
"incredible...by the end if she'd asked us to rise up and destroy the patriarchy, we would have"
- audience feedback
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As ever, there'll be the excellent Feast of Fools welcoming atmosphere, the famed cakes, not to mention the way-better-than-the-average raffle!
