A seated show in which audience members stand up to tell true stories about their own lives in front of a supportive audience.
True Stories Live: Unravelling comes to Norwich Arts Centre on Sunday 1 November, a night built on the simplest of premises: people from the audience stand up and tell true stories from their own lives. There's no rehearsed line-up and no professional storyteller on the bill. The stories come from the room, told live by the people who lived them.
That's the whole point of the format. It's a night of anecdotal storytelling where the audience provides the material, and the stories themselves are the main event. Because the tales are told by the people who experienced them, they're as unpredictable as the lives they come from—some might be funny, some moving, some somewhere in between. The Arts Centre describes it as a lively, moving and unpredictable night, and that's because you never know who's going to stand up or what they're going to talk about.
There's a specific kind of energy to a night like this. It's grounded in a belief in the power of community and empathy—the idea that listening to a stranger tell a true story can be a way of connecting. The audience is described as warm and supportive, which is exactly what you want when the people on stage are your neighbours rather than professional performers. It's a seated show, so you can settle in and listen rather than standing around.
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It runs on Sunday 1 November, with doors opening at 7pm and the stories starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are pay-what-you-can-afford, with a £7 supporter price and an £8.50 option, and it's free for under 26s. You'll find it at Norwich Arts Centre, 51 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4PG.
