Wednesday, March 11, 2020

THE KITCHEN CAT

Thursday 19th March, at The Elm Tree, Hightown, Ringwood, starting at 19.30 promptly

We charge for admission at Heads and Tales so that we can pay for the room - and also in order to bring in professional tellers from other parts of the country, people we know and have heard elsewhere and are sure that you will enjoy.

Marion Leeper is one of those. She tells to small children in a small, completely dark, tent indoors - and she also tells stories that come out of Orlando Furioso, a vast and amazing poem in ottava rima from the early part of the 16th century.

What she is bringing to us is something even more complex: partly a personal memoir of and about her mother, and partly a traditional story in a new guise. [But don't those old stories keep on turning up, wherever we look?]


She couldn't remember who she was, but she knew that once she had been someone important... Scraps of memory, legend, and black lace woven together to tell one woman's rags to riches story, in an evening that will take you on a romp through the folktales and cocktail dresses of 1950s Europe.

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