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Performance
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Lisa Dwan
Beside the Sea
Event 191 • • Venue: Starlight Stage
The actress reprises her SBC triumph of Veronique Olmi’s haunting Beside The Sea about a mother who is driven to the extremes of mental and physical despair. Performance, and discussion chaired by Stephanie Merritt.
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Jan Blake with Raymond Sereba
The Buffalo Woman - Storytelling
Event 236 • • Venue: Hay on Earth Stage
A hunter kills buffalo and takes the meat back to his village. But the young buffalo calf that watched him kill her mother is determined to make him pay. After many years of planning, the shape-shifting Buffalo Woman goes on a quest for revenge but doesn’t anticipate the lengths a mother will go to in order to protect her son.
Delicate and dramatic by turn, their song and music, which includes the extraordinary Dodo mouth bow, cradles the story in a truly evocative soundscape
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Jon Gower, Jeremy Moore, Tomos Williams
At Water’s Edge
Event 246 • • Venue: Digital Stage
As the All-Wales Coast Path opens to the public, the writer is joined by his fellow-travelling photographer and trumpeter to explore the country’s 870-mile edge, where land meets sea.
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Jan Blake with Kouame Sereba
The Leopard Woman - Storytelling
Event 464 • • Venue: Starlight Stage
A hunter goes in search of a leopard cub, a sacrifice in honour of his newborn son - but on finding two cubs, greed overcomes reason and he takes both. Their mother however, a shape-shifting leopard is determined to see her children returned home safely and the hunter pay a high price for his selfishness.
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Pentabus Theatre Company
The Hay Play
Event 488 • • Venue: The Sound Castle
Hay Festival Playwright-in-Residence Nell Leyshon has spent the week roaming the festival, eavesdropping, inventing and imagining a rich, raucous tale set in a certain border town. Written, rehearsed and performed in a fortnight, Pentabus Theatre presents a specially commissioned piece of theatre for and about Hay.
£5 or FREE BUT TICKETED TO RESIDENTS OF HAY*
*Hay residents may collect tickets before the festival from the Box Office.
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In Association with Pentabus Theatre
