Heap of Sinners: A performance by James Richardson

Event information

Join James Richardson of Angel Heart Theatre for an evening of Dartmoor stories shaped by 46 years of living on its wild edge. Moving there as a 12-year-old in 1979, James grew up among some of the last locals of an older Dartmoor, whose knowledge, humour and hard-won wisdom left a lifelong mark.

His working years as a tree-planter and dry-stone waller took him deep into the landscape through harsh winters and long, quiet days outdoors, forming a bond with the land that he now considers his spiritual home. A recent five-day journey into the heart of the Moor’s ancient oak woods adds a new chapter to this relationship.

Through spoken-word readings, haiku, curious found objects and two colourful puppet characters, James will tell his tales. A puppeteer since 1999 and co-author of The High Oak and This Ragged Edge, he is currently writing a collection of short stories set on Dartmoor.

The performance will be in two parts with an interval.

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