The Three Snake Leaves: Fairytales for Grown-ups from the Grimm Forest

Name: The Three Snake Leaves: Fairytales for Grown-ups from the Grimm Forest
Start: 2025-01-29T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Cambridge Junction

Schedule

Wed Jan 29 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cambridge Junction | Cambridge, EN

A father and daughter sit beside a fire in the snow; a bride is bricked up in a tower; marvels gleam in the half-light, and the mysterious snake leaves bring transformation.
The dark and unexpected pasts of three dishevelled travellers lost in a forest are untangled in this subtle and beguiling fairytale for grown-ups. Seamlessly interweaving a dozen of Grimm’s lesser-known stories, legendary contemporary storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton, and Sally Pomme Clayton, and extraordinary musician Sheema Mukherjee, embark on an enchanted search for truth.
Shot through with evocative music and luminous beauty, this is a show about what it is to be a human.
'A WONDERFUL, INTRICATE PIECE ABOUT STORYTELLING AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF REDEMPTION!' - The Independent
'MESMERISING. THE CRICK CRACK CLUB WEAVES A WEB OF ENCHANTMENT.' - Remote Goat
‘SHEEMA'S MUSIC IS AN UNEXPECTED, CHARMING, AND ALTOGETHER SINGULAR CREATION.' - The Guardian
TICKETS: Pay what you feel
SUITABLE FOR: adults (16+)
RUNNING TIME: 120mins (+ interval)
STARTS 7.30pm
BOOK NOW: https://www.junction.co.uk/events/the-three-snake-leaves-fairytales-for-grown-ups-from-the-grimm-forest
Content warning: This performance may contain descriptions of or references to death, incest, rape, death in childbirth, and mutilation contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.