The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab is delighted to host two brilliant storytellers adapting medieval material. Please join us for Telling Stories from Medieval England and Ireland: all are welcome but as we have a very restricted capacity you must book a place via this eventbrite page. The event will begin at 5:15pm on Thursday 16th October at the Judith Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
- Debbie Cannon, ' Green Knight.' Debbie Cannon is a Perth-based actor and writer, who completed her DPhil in Medieval Studies at York University in 1999. Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur's finest knight. But what if the story was retold by the woman at its heart? A one-woman telling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 'superlative... storytelling theatre' ***** (Fringeguru.com).
- Lara McClure, 'Oral Tradition'. Lara has been telling stories since she was knee-high to a grasshopper, and is passionate about bringing gnarly tales with traditional roots to contemporary audiences. Lara's source material ranges from feudal Japan to the Victorian gothic to her native Ireland, and she delights in squeezing out and twisting together the humour and the darkness to be found therein. In 2024 Lara took her one-woman show Oral Tradition: A Filthy Rant from Ancient Ulster to the Edinburgh Fringe, where critics called her 'a talented storyteller ... whose verbal dexterity, cleverness, and passion for the material draws her audience in like a sage by a camp fire' (Alan Grant, Scottish Daily Express) and 'an excellent performer ... (who) stamps her own style on the tales ... stands firmly on the fun side of raunchy and is not to be missed' (Stephen Walker, The Wee Review).
