Tag: The Pentamerone
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Audience Comments from Birmingham Storyelling Cafe
The fine folks at Birmingham Storytelling Cafe had me along to tell stories from my show How to Spin Enchantment. Here’s some of the audience feedback, I’m particularly impressed by the poetry: 9/10 a very good night, laughter, wit and the occasional fright, We’ll come see you again, every now and then, unless there’s a…
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The Pentamerone: Part 1
The Pentamerone is a collection of fifty folk tales written by Giambattista Basile in the Neopolitan dialect. It’s based on oral stories he collected while he was traveling around Venice, Crete and wherever he’d find people who would tell him a tale. It’s a phenomenal collection, containing just about every major motif of the European…