Tickets
Tickets from £10 | Under 16s half price £
Dates
Matinees Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 4pm
About this event
presented by Mike Shepherd in Cahoots with the Minack Theatre
original production co-directed by Mike Shepherd and Elayce Ismail
‘theatre that sharpens the senses…a bounteous night that deserves a longer life’ The Guardian
Calvino Nights returns with even more wild possibilities of fire, feast and fun-filled fiasco!
Join the marvellous Mr Calvino and his motley troupe of tale-tellers, song-makers and fire-raisers for an unforgettable ride through life told, quite literally, on a cliff-edge precipice! Be entertained by hapless thieves, very clever peas, daft billionaires and women who live entirely on wind!
Loosely inspired by the folktales of Italo Calvino, Calvino Nights is a show for those who’ve lost their moral compass (it’s where you left it!) or for those who simply need a damned good night out!
Mike Shepherd writes: ‘Italo Calvino is an Italian writer who collected aural tellings of folk tales and rewrote them with a lavish sprinkling of exaggeration. Calvino Nights is inspired by a mix of several of these folk tales including the adventures of a boy the size of a pea, a skinflint miser, a woman who lives on nothing more than wind, there are hapless robbers, fallen angels, circus tricks, the cosmos and lots of fire !
Calvino has inspired us for many years. Kneehigh shows The Wild Bride and The Wooden Frock were based on his folk tales. Last April we made a short film at Restormel Castle with director Joe Wright inspired by the Calvino story Princess and Peppernose – you can see it below! Now is the time though to leave those screens behind ! Stories need to be experienced live, we all need live events!’
Calvino Nights is for children, their older brothers and sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.
Accessibility
Details
Step free access available to accessible balcony, toilets and cafe
Facilities
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Tue 23rd Apr, 2024 — Thu 16th May, 2024
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Mon 27th May, 2024 — Fri 31st May, 2024
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