The Story Museum

Oxford

A fresh dose of magic you need in your life

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Welcome to the darker side of fairytale. Every month we bring our live storytelling shows to The Story Museum. Not your average Oxford theatre experience, these are intriguing, intimate live events, featuring some of the UK’s finest storytellers. Filled with all the wild epic, twisted mythology, ancient folklore and bizarre comedy you could wish for, our Fairytales for Grown-ups are told after dark at the museum.

All our Story Museum shows are hybrid events, combining live performance and the accessibility of a virtual stream. If you live outside Oxford or are unable to attend an in-person event, you can book an online ticket. 

what's on

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The Story Museum, Oxford
THE THREE SNAKE LEAVES: FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS FROM THE GRIMM FOREST
HUGH LUPTON, SALLY POMME CLAYTON AND BEN HAGGARTY, WITH MUSIC BY SHEEMA MUKHERJEE
21 Nov 2024, 7.30PM - SOLD OUT
Seamlessly interweaving a dozen of Grimm’s lesser-known stories, legendary contemporary storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton, and Sally Pomme Clayton, and extraordinary musician Sheema Mukherjee, embark on an enchanted search for truth.
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The Story Museum, Oxford
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: THE RAMAYANA
Emily Hennessey, music by Sheema Mukherjee
23 JAN 2025, 7.30PM
Epic comic strip meets ancient Indian myth as storyteller Emily Hennessey and virtuoso sitar player Sheema Mukherjee conjure up the vivid, wild and beguiling world of the Ramayana, shot through with bitter rivalry, wild battles, love, loyalty, and cosmic monkeys.
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The Story Museum, Oxford
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: FOLK HORROR NIGHT
Daniel Morden, Laura Sampson
27 Feb 2025, 7.30PM
Lonely forests, foolhardy pacts, shapeshifters, unquiet graves, and ominous prophecies - the folk and fairytales of our ancestors are bound with the traces of old superstition, twisted ritual, cult, curses and archaic customs.
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The Story Museum, Oxford
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS: DIONYSUS
Amelia Ace Armande
20 MARCH 2025, 7.30PM
Dionysus thrice-born. Dionysus girl-child. Dionysus vine-maker. Dionysus mountain-shaker... Unstopper the life story of the Greek God of the Vine with Amelia Ace Armande, pouring out heady tales of ecstasy, madness, conquest and resurrection.

Join us for our exuberant, intelligent wild, weird and wonderful live storytelling events in Oxford. The  Crick Crack Club is the UK’s busiest and boldest programmer of performance storytelling. Our world-class storytellers will draw you into the stunning content of international fairytale, folktale, myth and epic, on a magical, alternative night out.

If you’re a thinker, or a dreamer, and you have an imagination that you like to feed  – then our storytelling events are for you! Our fairytales for grown-ups are suitable for adults (teens aged 14+ or 16+), but you can find specific recommendations on each show listing.

Expect deliciously dark, wild and humorous tales

THE STORY MUSEUM

The Story Museum, Oxford exists to share great stories in great ways. Through imaginative exhibitions and exciting programmes of performances, events and workshops, they engage people of all ages in great stories. The Crick Crack Club live storytelling performances are part of the adult events programme and take place after hours at The Story Museum.

The Crick Crack Club at The Story Museum, 42 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP  www.storymuseum.org.uk

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