Tim Ralphs

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  • From White Lion to LeftLion

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    LeftLion ran a recent article on the top literary organisations in Nottingham and we were very excited to see Beeston Tales make the list. Here’s the relevant section in full: “Think you can spin a yarn? Fancy yourself adept at keeping listeners gripped until the very end? Down at The White Lion in Beeston stands…

  • Reflections on Autumn, LeftLion reviews and Day of the Dead

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    Hi there! A quick update on some of the things that have been happening this past Autumn. My new storytelling club, Beeston Tales, is thriving. Matt Turpin came along to check out a recent show and has written a wonderful review for LeftLion. “simple tales… ..are told luxuriantly, the beat and cadence of the teller’s…

  • Reviews and comments for recent gigs

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    My performance of Can the Mountains Love the Sea? got a review by A Small Mind. “An excellent night.” * * * * Read the full review here. I also got these kind words from some Viking reinactors who came along: “What a great experience this was! My friend J~ and I were completely enthralled…

  • The Oxford Culture Review reviews The Four Chambers of The Heart

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    L. C. Broad reviews “The Four Chambers of the Heart” in The Oxford Culture Review. I’m really glad she liked it. The Four Chambers is a very important project for Clare Murphy, Cat Gerrard and myself, and I hope you’ll be hearing more about it soon. “The universe, wrote poet Muriel Rukeyser, is made of…

  • Fringe Guru reviews Rebranding Beelzebub.

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    Lizzie Bell from Fringe Guru reviewed Rebranding Beelzebub and gave it a big, fat four stars. “This is a funny, cleverly-done show that is very much worth seeing: one that will delight, amuse and surprise you by turns. It’s a highly entertaining hour with a top-rate storyteller. If you enjoy tales of supernatural trickery and…

  • Review: 300 to 1

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    Following a recommendation, Tim and The Devil go along to see Matt Panesh’s 300 to 1 TIM: So here’s a concept for you, a one man show re-enacting the movie 300 with critical commentary from the ghosts of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. THE DEVIL: Intriguing. TIM: Yes. I think the concept is brilliant and…

  • Review: Can’t Care, Won’t Care

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    Wandering the nether corridors of The Banshee Labyrinth, Tim and The Devil go to see Sophia Walker’s Can’t care, Won’t care THE DEVIL: Do we do awards? I want to do awards. I want to nominate this for the Philip Pullman prize for the show with the darkest material. TIM: Quite! The premise is pretty…

  • Review: Wretch like me

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    Tim and the talking serpent he suspects is The Devil attend David Templeton’s Wretch like me (or How I was saved from being saved.) TIM: This is a storytelling show in which Templeton talks about his lonely childhood and how he was increasingly sucked into the Evangelical Christianity in his teens. He does a good…

  • Review: Dandy Darkly’s Pussy Panic

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    Continuing the theme of shows with expletives in the title, Tim and The Devil go to see Dandy Darkly’s Pussy Panic. THE DEVIL: Ahh my beloved Dandy. Self-professed to be New York’s satiric and satanic storyteller. TIM: Yeah, this really felt like it held promise for both of us. I must say I’ve been delighted…

  • Review: What the F*ck is This?

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    It should be noted that the show we saw was plagued with technical difficulties including, but not limited to, RTJ having to use an older version of his multimedia presentation. It seems a bit disingenuous to review someone’s show on the basis of such a slip up, so I spoke to RTJ about this review…

  • Review: Brave and Free

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    Today we went to the Scottish Storytelling Centre to check out one of the few traditional storytelling acts in the Fringe Programme – Calum Lykan’s Brave and Free TIM: That was my first time listening to Calum Lykan. We had a good natter before the show and worked out which other storytellers we knew in…

  • Review: The Splitting of the Mermaid

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    Here we are at the Edinburgh Fringe and the first show the Devil and I went to see was a preview of Lucy Ayrton’s The Splitting of the Mermaid. TIM : This was a performance so much my cup of tea that it could have been served in a mug with my name on it.…