A performance storytelling piece by The Crick Crack Club, exploring the mythic narrative of Fionn MacCumhaill's last battle through fragments of medieval manuscript, story, and song.
The Crick Crack Club bring The Bodies on the Beach to the York Theatre Royal on Friday 12 March, performing in the Studio. It's a storytelling piece featuring Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain, and they've framed it as a 'Celtic Iliad'.
The story follows the last battle of the epic hero Fionn MacCumhaill on the westernmost tip of Ireland. Rather than a straight retelling, the show is built from fragments of medieval manuscript, story, and song, so you'll hear the narrative pieced together from those different sources. It's an exploration of what it means to live, regret, sacrifice, and endure in a relentless world, and the whole thing sits within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype, and metaphor.
If you're not familiar with the name, The Crick Crack Club are a storytelling company, and this is one of their performance pieces. The two on stage, Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain, will be the ones bringing the fragments together. The focus is on the storytelling itself, and the Studio at York Theatre Royal is a good fit for that kind of work.
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It's on Friday 12 March in the Studio at York Theatre Royal.
