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
'STORYTELLING GENIUS' Brighton Fringe
TICKETS: Pay what you can (£12 suggested)
SUITABLE FOR: adults (14+)
RUNNING TIME: 120mins, plus interval
STARTS: 7.30pm
Content warning: This performance contains descriptions of sex, prostitution, violence, death, and grief contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
TICKETS: Pay what you can (£12 suggested)
SUITABLE FOR: adults (14+)
RUNNING TIME: 120mins, plus interval
STARTS: 7.30pm
Content warning: This performance contains descriptions of sex, prostitution, violence, death, and grief contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.