Storytelling & Community Theatre

During lockdown, the quietness and togetherness of communities has given many Cornish folk a small reminder of how it once was. Listening to these stories at the local pub and shop has inspired me to channel this feeling of community and culture through writing a play about our heritage and long-lost magic. 
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I value the spirit that has governed this uncertain period in time where communities have pulled together in a time of desolation, isolation, desperation. As the tourists (or "emmets") start to fill up the village of The Lizard again, I am really keen to utilise my passion for script-writing and story telling and merge the culture of "what was" with "what is" before it is somehow lost to the loudness of globalisation again.

Therefore, I am putting out a call for anyone who has a passion for acting and story-telling to get in touch. We can socially distance rehearse in a way which is suitable for you. 

But I would like to use the stories I have gathered to compose nights where we perform a tale about the village and surrounding areas, the local families, the analogies that kept fisherman going to sea, the poetry that connected people, the superstitions and magic that supported a whole other way of life.

In this way, we can celebrate what it means to be Cornish, what it means to be connected to these years and years of rich and meaningful heritage. As my Great Uncle J.C Trewin wrote:

"The Lizard means to me the harsh scent of camomile in Pistol Meadow, the thymy tang of grass jungled above Housel Bay in a dry September, the acrid smell of seaweed from Polpeor, the warm geranium-and-musk in Church cove, the clove and peach of the Goonhilly furze, the hot spicy tingle of saffron cakes in the ovens of Kynance Bay..." But he went on to say when looking at an old map of Cornwall, he noticed  how poetically we used to see the land "the treasures" of " acrobatic sea-monsters - one in a rich lime-green, with mouth of flaming red, 

But everyone has a different vision of this land, this kingdom, 

Although, we are living in a very technological time now, the magic, the spirit of the place is still here, just waiting for us.