Phil Okwedy - "The Gods are All Here"

Name: Phil Okwedy - "The Gods are All Here"
Start: 2024-07-03T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-03T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Northampton Quaker Meeting House, Wellington St, Northampton NN1` 3AS, NN1 3AS Northampton, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed Jul 03 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Northampton Quaker Meeting House, Wellington St, Northampton NN1` 3AS, NN1 3AS Northampton, United Kingdom | Northampton, EN

Phil Okwedy is a Welsh performance storyteller and myth-maker, Cardiff-born to a Welsh mother and Nigerian father, who draws deeply on his dual heritage and multiple cultures in his performances across Wales, England and internationally.
"The Gods are All Here" was built after finding love letters from his father to his mother, when Phil was clearing her house. Extracts from these form the backdrop to this performance mixing personal experience of growing up as a child of dual heritage in 1960's and 70's Wales with myths, folktales and song from the African diaspora. He considers if his parents were, in fact, the gods which, as children often will, he had believed them to be.
Audience who have seen it have described the performance as:
"Superb storytelling, combining personal, traditional and reimagined stories in a unique way. Very moving and gripping throughout, you always want to know 'what happens next'.”
"spectacularly crafted"
"Highlight of this year’s Beyond the Border Festival!”
And our Feast of Fools committee members who saw this show in Oxford last year were just as keen; since then, everyone we’ve spoken to who’s seen it has raved about it too, generally emphasising the words “Just go and see it!”
So now we've managed to book Phil Okwedy to come all the way to Northampton, to perform “The Gods are All Here” for us, so you can indeed just go and see it for yourselves.