Celtic Tales & Oscar Wilde

8/9/2013

I will be back telling Celtic Tales in The Cottage Bar this thursday, 8th August, and will be telling stories until the 31st October.

As well as new and old stories i will also be doing something a little different. During August I will be performing preview extracts from Oscar Wilde's last work The Ballad of Reading Gaol. I will be performing the full poem in the Town Hall Theatre on 7th September.

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most powerful ways of sharing wonder, laughter and amazement, of transporting your head, heart and soul to new and incredible dimensions. However, stories can also shine a light on the darker truths of the world around us. The tale Oscar Wilde tells in The Ballad of Reading Gaol is as haunting and troubling as it is beautiful and passionate.

Oscar Wilde wrote the poem in a matter of months while in exile in France after his release from prison in 1897. During his two years in prison, a man was hanged for killing his wife. The poem’s most famous lines “Yet each man kills the thing he loves” were inspired by this incident. As preperation for my performance of the poem I have began writing up some thoughts on it in Goodreads

For details on the Town Hall Show see The Ballad of Reading Gaol

For details on my thursday storytelling sessions see Celtic Tales

29 Comments

Jim McNeill link

9/18/2013 01:34:52 am

Hi - I run monthly storytelling evenings in Gravesend, Kent ~ https://www.facebook.com/StorytellingInGravesend . I'm putting together the programme for early 2014....any chance you are in London or SE, England at all in the new year? If so give me a shout.

Rab

9/18/2013 04:03:19 pm

Hi Jim, I'm mostly based in Ireland but we could try and figure out a way of getting me to Kent. Drop me a line at celtictales@gmail.com and we'll bounce some ideas. Meantime, as an example of my storytelling here is a link to my telling a traditional Scottish tale in The Cottage Bar, Galway to a group of mostly young Irish and international students.

'The Three Red Hats' is in two parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4xo8h32u93g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy-i4xEp0ME

Enjoy!

Jim McNeill link

9/19/2013 02:07:35 am

Hi
Thanks for getting back so quickly. I only run a small venue (a cafe that attracts 25-30 people on storytelling nights) so we couldn't pay your fare...however if you could get other gigs in London & the SW then we'd be delighted to host you.

Give my love to Galway.

Kind regards,
Jim

rab

9/19/2013 07:40:40 pm

Oh that's grand, your venue sounds wonderful and i would love to do some stories there. At the moment i have no plans to visit London - but I would love to get over. Do you have any suggestions as to who i should talk to... ?

Jim McNeill

9/25/2013 02:34:43 am

Hi again Rab
There are lots of storytelling venues/orgs in the London area. You could start by visiting:
http://www.crickcrackclub.com - their what's on page promotes some events in and around London.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/crickcrackclub/ allows orgs to promote and network their events...just follow the links to their websites to contact them direct.
Hope this is of assistance.
Jim

rab

9/25/2013 04:50:32 am

thanks Jim i'll definelty check that link out. however it suddenly seems as if i'm not going to be free over the spring of 2014. The response to the Oscar Wilde show has been such that it now looks, fingers crossed, as if Sandra and I may be taking it on a national tour here in Ireland. but i am still interested in getting over to the UK and will keep in touch once i know more about what i'm doing.

PS hope yir having a wonderful autumn. Me, i've been swimming in Galway Bay :-)

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