Stranger Beasts

I will teach you not to fear each other, the stranger, or the storm.

I am Cornwall, I am in one place, but my heart is free.

This September, on the spoil heaps and ruins of the iconic Geevor Mine, at the end of the land, Wildworks will be creating a new show, the glittering highlight of We Are Shining, our 2024/25 programme celebrating Cornwall’s long traditions of welcoming strangers, of community and outdoor performance.

Cornwall will take centre stage in Stranger Beasts, the story of Belerion, a girl born of a cosmic mother and an earth-born father, bound to change the destinies of her land and her people.

Bel grows up wild and motherless, but as she reaches girlhood her ordeal begins. Forced into an unwanted femininity, she is exploited, quarried, gouged and excavated by those who should love her but wish to tame her. But you cannot tame a wild heart. Bel’s stormy rage at her cruel fate brings a Stranger to the shore. Together they will journey through the Thin Place, the boundary between the land and the sea. A liminal space, neither here nor there, where rules are suspended and Bel and the Stranger can find love and acceptance of their strangeness.

Stranger Beasts is a life story and a love story that explores the transformative nature of strangers. A story that reminds us that despite the surface wounds and scars that we all gather through life, sometimes all it takes is the power of a stranger to hold up a magic mirror to reflect and remind us of what potential and strength lies beneath.

A love song to the land. A wild cry to the skies… that you do not have to inhabit the boundaries and confinements you inherited.

AGE RECOMMENDATION 8+