The Crick Crack Club presents GILGAMESH

The Crick Crack Club presents Gilgamesh 

Friday 9th May 2025

7.30pm

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street, Bridport, DT6 3LX

Tickets: £12 available from Bridport TIC, 01308 424901 or online 

Age 14+ 

Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty 

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.

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