Storytelling At The Feast Of Fools: Debs Newbold - Dauntless
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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+
Debs Newbold
Storyteller, word wrangler, crowd tamer Debs’ powerful storytelling brings together the poetic and the irreverent, the ancient and the defiantly modern. Armed with a quick wit, already laugh and a way with an audience, Debs has fast become one of the UK's most acclaimed Performance Storytellers, regularly playing venues such as the Royal Opera House, the British Library, the Southbank Centre and Shakespeare's Globe. Storyteller for Shakespeare's Globe, Storyteller in Residence at the English Folk Dance and Song Society, double nominee at last year's British Awards for Storytelling Excellence, Debs is a force of nature, a teller not to be missed. 'Stunning! A storming set of great stories, superbly told!' (Nell Phoenix).
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