PRESS RELEASE for immediate release June 2nd 2022
This year’s Buxton Fringe (July 6-24) will take audiences on an emotional journey from terror to laughter and everywhere in-between in its popular Spoken Word category.
Buxton Drama League offers a trip to meet ghostly uninvited guests in the ancestral home of the Wellhavalin family in the Fringe’s only purely online show this year, A Whiter Shade of Pale. For some this won't end well for others there will be valuable life lessons. Meanwhile storytellers Polis Loizou and Laura Sampson and sound artist Sam Enthoven offer an hour of grown-up folk and fairy tales concerning bad omens in Portents. More traditional terror is on offer in The Raven and the Sleeper in Dreamland with three poems by Edgar Allan Poe performed by local writers alongside some of their own original poetry and short stories. For those who like their horror local, L&J productions are back with Twilight Tales set in Buxton from Roman times to the present day.
For some lighter relief, join The Glummer Twins, with an irreverent trawl through the eight decades that made them what they are today in The Beat Goes On. Also reflecting on their past and what inspired them to write novels, Christine Palmer and Jean Gemmell invite audiences for tea, sympathy, humour, music and cake in Two Ladies.
People looking for a more spiritual experience should join Rebecca Robinson in Wildcrafted Words: Nature Poetry to Rewild your Soul, an immersive audio-visual experience inspired by the magic and beauty of Mother Nature. Or they can explore Eastern philosophy, shamanism, quantum mechanics and meditation as part of a search to reveal tantalising alternative ways of loving, feeling and thinking with Ben Moores in Whirlpool People: Deconstructing The Self Illusion.
Presenting its first live performances at Buxton Fringe, Chapel Arts Creative Writing Group offers a wide variety of original readings exploring the multi-faceted theme of Reconnecting. In Dreamshed’s We’ll Let You Know author Ben Cronshaw introduces his new book of monologues, Speak the Speech. Mark Gwynne Jones will take people on a journey through the Peak District in word, film and sound with a live performance of his popular audio series Voices From The Peak. Elsewhere Michael Gibson offers a happy ending to the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the aid of his Anglo-Saxon harp in the early 14th-century romance, Sir Orfeo.
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery will be offering a range of lunchtime talks on Derbyshire’s history including a look at the ceramics found during the restoration of Buxton's Crescent and the DNA analysis of the county's early inhabitants.
Fringe Marketing Officer Stephanie Billen adds: “We are really thrilled by the range of spoken words events on offer this year. Audiences will be spoiled for choice with something sure to appeal to everyone.”
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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