Fairytales for Grown-ups: UNCANNY

**The Crick Crack Club presents**

**UNCANNY**

**Performance storytelling by Nell Phoenix**

**‘I heard a whining voice but saw no body in the room’**

**‘We saw her and we saw right through her’**

**‘I blinked just once and he had changed his shape’**

**Nell paces a path from dusty Mesopotamia, to Ancient Egypt, through London’s Bloomsbury, along a dingy road in Guatemala at dawn, and back to her own kitchen table – gathering up disturbing, unsettling, baffling, bewildering, sinister, UNCANNY stories.**

**These are not literary tales crafted to scare you. These are not folktales, bloody fairytales, or urban myths. These are spine-tingling tales told as true by one of the UK’s most popular and dynamic storytellers.**

**Who are these witnesses of these other-worldly acts? Why did they tell their stories? And do we believe in ghosts?**

**‘She picks through her tale like a mountain goat skipping up a cliff face’ London City Nights**

**‘A mercurial and captivating performer’ Dave Farnogli**

**RUNNING TIME: Approx. 75 minutes without interval**

**SUITABLE FOR adults 14+**

**CONTENT This performance contains references to the supernatural, threat, death and dying, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor**

Presented by Folklore Hoxton.

This is an 18+ event