In Tandem Theatre Company - A Great Fear of Shallow Living
Friday 2nd March - 7:45pm (60 mins)
£12
(Theatre/Storytelling)
It is well known that it was at 6pm on the 33rd of December 1883, as the first orange tree was sprouting on Orkney Beach, that Mrs Muir opened a chest, found her skin and returned to the sea.
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It is not so well known that at this exact same moment, while the villagers cheered and rushed to the shore, a little girl awoke with salt on her lips and whispered ‘all my daughters will be born selkies’…
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In Tandem Theatre Company’s award winning show ‘A Great Fear of Shallow Living’ reclaims the Celtic myth of the Selkie. With live music and spellbinding physicality this is a story about being torn, about needing to be two things, but having to be one; about helping us to belong, while whispering that we don’t have to.
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Funny, moving, and bold, this familiar story with unfamiliar twists will have you itching to shed your skin and slip back into forbidden, forgotten waters.
