Dreaming the Night Field
When: 24th September 2017 at 3pm
Where: Settle Stories, The Joinery, Dawsons Court, Market Place, Settle, North Yorkshire BD24 9ED
£: Tickets cost £14 or £12 online
What is it?
A story as ubiquitous to generations of Welsh people as Shakespeare is to the classrooms and stages of England, the treasured Welsh legend of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion is brought to the stage in Dreaming the Night Field: a legend of Wales. The brand new storytelling performance, delivered by three of the UK’s leading artists, brings the ancient story faithfully up to date for modern audiences.
Settle Stories are proud to present this Adverse Camber production, following the company’s acclaimed The Shahnameh at the Richard Whiteley Theatre last year. This production comes at an exciting time for arts and heritage charity Settle Stories as it will be the first performance in their new arts venue, The Joinery, in the centre of Settle. The performance aims to set the tone for the high quality arts events the charity programme across the year.
Adverse Camber bring together storyteller, Michael Harvey and acclaimed folk musician, Stacey Blythe and Lynne Denman. Spending months in the vast, beautiful expanses of Welsh countryside in which the story is set, Adverse Camber and the artists have explored and represented the very essence of a much-loved and influential piece of literature, devising brand new music to punctuate Harvey’s dramatic, good-humoured and captivating spoken performance.
A story of betrayal, revenge, love, honour, magic and transformation that transports audiences to the living landscape of North Wales and its brilliant night sky, Dreaming the Night Field is based on the fourth branch of The Mabinogion, a series of four stories that stand as a central pillar of Welsh culture.
Powerful and poetic, the story was the inspiration behind Alan Garner’s well-loved classic novel, The Owl Service, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Dreaming the Night Field is told in English and the performance is delicately interwoven with the Welsh language.
More info: settlestories.org.uk