The Crick Crack Club at Cranborne Earthouse | Gilgamesh

The Crick Crack Club at Cranborne Earthouse | Gilgamesh

There is a hill in Dorset that has a door. Inside is a fire-lit theatre. This is Cranborne Earthouse – one of England’s most magical, secret venues. Seating up to 250 people and lit by oil lamp and firelight, this is a place where audiences gather – under an earth roof, held up by 21 huge oak tree trunks – to listen to stories and music.

Every month, world-class storytellers, The Crick Crack Club, bring legendary live performance storytelling to the Earthouse.

Gilgamesh – performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty, with 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 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

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

‘BLOODY BRILLIANT’ Time Out

‘AN IMMENSE TALENT’ Everything Theatre

TICKETS: £13
SUITABLE FOR: adults 14+
RUNNING TIME: 120 mins plus interval
STARTS: 7.30pm

CONTENT WARNING: This performance may contain descriptions of birth, death, sex, threat and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.