Red Chair Storytelling Workshop And Performance

This Ticket Is For The Storytelling Workshop 17th June at Malvern Library and includes ticket to the Red Chair performance on 19th June at Malvern Cube

Clod Ensemble
From Man to Chair
A workshop on stories and transformation

Explore techniques and approaches to storytelling in a creative, relaxed environment with artist Sheila Ghelani to create your own original story. This workshop draws on themes of autobiography and transformation in Clod Ensemble’s latest production The Red Chair, a macabre tale of a man who ate so much that he turned into the chair he was sitting upon.

What object, piece of furniture or animal might your main protagonist become in your own story of transformation?

In this workshop you will:
Discuss ideas of autobiography and transformation
Look at blending reality with fiction
Identify a moment of transformation (real or imagined) as a basis for your story
Learn about surreal techniques such as automatic writing

Participation in this workshop is free, and no experience is necessary. All materials will be provided.

Red Chair:
The Red Chair is a surreal ballad populated with larger than life characters, told in rich and saucy Scots dialect which draws the audience into the extraordinary world of a troubled family ,with a dram of whisky to help along the way.

A contemporary take on folk and fairytale storytelling traditions, The Red Chair tells the story of a father who eats and eats until he turns into the chair he is sitting upon, the wife doomed to cook his meals and their 'inveesible' daughter.

By turns haunting and humorous, The Red Chair takes audiences on a journey through a landscape of twisted reason, extreme compulsion and eye watering complacency, where domestic drudgery happens on an operatic scale and a father’s dereliction of duty reaches epic proportions.