the Earthouse

cranborne, Dorset

I was spellbound – I don’t use the word lightly

 THE TIMES

In a field in Dorset there is a hill with a door. This is the Earthouse, a 250-seat fire-lit theatre, where audiences sit on wooden benches, under an earth roof, held up by 21 huge oak tree trunks.

Join us in this fabulous quirky venue for regular live storytelling shows. Expect a magical alternative theatre experience – our fairytales for grown-ups are complete with star gazing, the occasional sheep and a lot of fairylights, creating a glorious outdoor theatre vibe.

what's on

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Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: AND OTHER WONDERS
Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
13 April 2024, 7.30PM - SOLD OUT
Fall into the surreal, enchanting and hallucinatory world of three wonder tales told by Sarah Liisa Wilkinson. We promise to return you in one piece…unless you choose to stay.
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Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: LOVE RITES
Ben Haggarty, Steph Brittain
11 May 2024, 7.30pm
Storytellers Ben Haggarty & Steph Brittain chase a timeless theme through the forest of grown-up folktale, fairytale, epic and myth, to find the love we seek; the love we fear; the love that transcends; the love that burns, the love that heals; and the love that entangles sex and death and rebirth.
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Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: DAUNTLESS - GRACE O'MALLEY, PIRATE QUEEN
Debs Newbold
15 June 2024, 7.30PM
From the west of Ireland to the court of Elizabeth I, from wild youth to even wilder old age, Dauntless is an epic celebration of uproarious storytelling, high drama and one fascinating 16th-century feminist: Grace O'Malley – legendary Irish clan chief and queen of the sea. 
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Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: THE THREE SNAKE LEAVES
Hugh Lupton, Sally Pomme Clayton and Ben Haggarty, with music by Sheema Mukherjee
13 July 2024, 7.30PM
Over 200 years after the Grimm Brothers' magnificent collection of stories was first published, three pioneers of contemporary performance storytelling reform to bring their seminal piece, The Three Snake Leaves, to the stage once more, with new music by Sheema Mukherjee.

Magical Alternative Theatre in Dorset

The Crick Crack Club is the UK’s busiest and boldest programmer of live performance storytelling. We present shows that are inspired by or which reinterpet the stunning content of international fairytale, folktale, myth and epic for contemporary audiences. If you’re a thinker, a seeker, or a dreamer, and you have an imagination that you like to feed, then this is for you.

Working with some of the UK’s finest performance storytellers, we present an annual performance programme of live storytelling, in this unusual Dorset arts venue. Exuberant, intelligent, wild, weird and wonderful by turn – our live storytelling events bring audiences together, in the magnificent splendour of this historic venue. Shows usually sell out fast, so grab your tickets early.

 Beyond captivating

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The Crick Crack Club at The Earthouse, The Ancient Technology Centre, Damerham Road, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 5RP  www.earthouse.org.uk

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