Stories, songs and moving pictures to uplift and delight!
Come and share a feast for the imagination with three wonder-filled visual storytellers. They will take you on a sensory journey to magical places with stunning artwork, enthralling stories, songs and quirky puppets.
Bronia Evers, Sara Hurley and Wendy Dacre tell stories using ‘crankies’. A ‘crankie’ is a picture story on a scroll that is hand ‘cranked’ between two spools within a box. Linked to early moving image, crankies are like slow cinema, analogue viewing for digital times.
Join Bronia, Sara and Wendy for a uniquely entertaining experience for children and adults alike.
A show for 5 to 105 year olds.
Tickets
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Pay what you'd like to and create your own bundle if you're coming with others: £5, £7, £10 per person
About the artists
Bronia, Sara and Wendy are three visual storytellers who like to perform stories and songs together using crankies (moving picture scrolls) and kamishibai (which translates from Japanese as paper theatre.) Their crankies are all hand-made, and each woman brings a unique visual and performance style for audiences to enjoy.
The talented trio have each performed nationally and internationally. Together, they have developed their connection at International Crankie Festivals with other ‘crankie fanciers’ from around the world.
Bronia Evers is a storyteller, designer, maker and puppeteer.
She combines spoken word storytelling with hand crafted performing objects, sets and puppets. All of Bronia’s stories are told from the heart rather than learned by heart. The dance between words and images is an ongoing question that she continues to explore with curiosity. For the Totnes Fringe Festival Bronia will be performing her new show ‘Girl and Snake’.
https://www.broniaevers.com
Wendy Dacre is a singer, performer, crankie maker and puppeteer.
She has spent her life making puppets, props and paraphernalia to accompany traditional stories and songs for performance. Wendy makes exquisite and intricate crankies that she accompanies with song, puppetry and special lighting effects.
Sara Hurley is a storyteller, story maker, socially-engaged artist and creator of Isabella’s Story Bicycle.
Originally trained in theatre and dance, Sara loves the small-scale, up close and personal style of performance that comes with visual storytelling. She regularly performs around the country at festivals and events with her kamishiabi outdoor storytelling show ’Isabella’s Story Bicycle’.
Crankies - described by Bronia Evers
‘Crankies are a form of visual storytelling with a rich and wonderful history. A crankie theatre is a box built with two spools inside. The spools have handles that can be ‘cranked’ to bring movement to an illustrated scroll that is wound onto the spools.
In the 19th Century, these devices had many names but were often referred to as moving panoramas. The term ‘crankie' was coined later by Peter Schuman of the Bread and Puppet Theatre, USA.
The Crankie is a wonderful device for storytelling. It offers a stream of moving images to delight and engage audiences young and old, whilst still allowing plenty of room for the imagination to play its vital part in co-creating the story. Crankies can be combined with shadow puppetry to help tell a story and create magical visual effects.’
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