Crick Crack Club presents Gilgamesh at The Lyric Theatre ( Friday 9 May) 14+

Description

Performance storytelling by Ben Haggerty, music by Jonah Brody

A bored king  A wild man  A quest for eternal life  And the deepest secrets of the gods

Over 3,500 years after this ancient Sumerian epic was first etched into clay tablets, world renowned storyteller Ben Haggarty, and multi-instrumentalist Jonah Brody, bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary and powerful telling of one of the oldest stories in the world.

Haggarty’s bold and physical performance is underscored by the uncanny psychedelia of Brody’s music. The result is a passionate, fast-paced epic, laced with humour.

Goddesses are insulted and appeased by turn, supernatural beings are slain, apocalypse is averted, and our anti-hero turned hero, discovers what it really is to be a man.

‘VIVID, RICH AND IMPOSINGLY EPIC’ «««« Dominic Maxwell, The Times

AN IMMENSE TALENT «««« Everything Theatre

‘I WAS SPELLBOUND – I DON’T USE THE WORD LIGHTLY’ Erica Wagner, The Times

‘BLOODY BRILLIANT’ Time Out

‘STORYTELLING GENIUS’ Brighton Fringe

Content: This performance contains descriptions of sex, prostitution, violence, death, and grief contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.