Saturday 16th November 2024

The Return(Workshop) Natasha Stanic Mann

Lyttelton Rooms: 6 Church Street, Great Malvern

Date & Time: Saturday 16th November: 1pm-5pm (Includes ½ hour break)
Tickets: £5

Within the framework of ‘The Return’, a one-woman show about the intergenerational effects of war we developed a workshop based on the themes we are exploring in the piece - living through a war, leaving one’s country, and building a new life and a sense of belonging. Through drama games, improvisation and devising techniques, workshop participants get a taste of what goes into dramatising life experience. Participants work in groups and use stimuluses such as objects, images, or poems to devise stories and make performances.

This workshop provides a safe environment for the participants to take risks and try something new. It encourages participants to explore their creative potential and share stories. A collaborative nature of the workshop nurtures interpersonal skills, promotes teamwork, communication, and develops a sense of community.

Death Dinner Rose Rouse

Malvern Cube

Date & Time:Saturday 16th November 4-5.30pm
Tickets: £5

Death Dinner is a recording of a live event hosted by co-founder of Advantages of Age, Journalist, editor, and poet Rose Rouse. Rose Rouse will hold a Q&A session directly after the recording is shown.

Death Dinner is an hour-long documentary created by the Advantages of Age as the first of their OUTage events funded by Arts Council England. We see 12 people dressed as they would like to be buried or burnt, discussing their own relationship with the world of death professionally and personally – Carla Valentine is a mortician and technical curator at Barts Pathology Museum, Caroline Rosie Dent is an end of life doula and Death Café host, Caroline Bobby is a writer and psychotherapist, Dr Douglas Davies is an author and expert in death rituals, Charlie Phillips is a photographer who has documented Afro-Caribbean funerals, Patrick Ardagh-Walter is a soul midwife, Hannah Gosh makes modern mourning jewellery, John Constable wrote The Southwark Mysteries and is a campaigner for Crossbones Graveyard in SE1, Liz Rothschild owns the Westmill Woodland burial ground and is the founder of the Kicking The Bucket Festival in Oxford, Liz Hoggard is a journalist, Rose Rouse and Suzanne Noble are the co-founders of Advantages of Age, one of whose tenets is to open up the dialogue and discussion around death. Which is what we hope to do with this film!

Advantages of Age, are keen to open up this last taboo as well as helping to form a Death Community, supporting the Assisted Dying movement, and also facing the nitty gritty of what we might personally want in terms of death and dying.

FEAST of Thought

Malvern Cube

Date & Time:Saturday 16th November 6-8pm
Tickets: £10 (Includes 3 course meal)
Booking in Advance ESSENTIAL

International best selling author and storyteller Danny Scheinmann hosts FEAST of Thought. This 50 in-person and intimate three course meal held in the gentle hands of Danny and in collaboration with you, will surprise and nourish us all. Building on this new FEAST tradition, this will be a shared community meal and happening to remember. Prepare to feel a deep sense of connection, inspiration and gratitude. FEAST of Thought is part created with locally foraged Food. It’s all a bit of magic… Why not...Come and join the story.

Danny Scheinmann: dannyscheinmann.com
Image Credit Simon Matthew

Healing King Herod Riss Obolensky and Eloïse Poulton

Malvern Cube

Date & Time:Saturday 16th November 9-10pm
Tickets: £10
Fully stocked bar available from 8pm-9pm and 10pm-11pm

King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme. Audiences transform from ancient soldiers into modern clients in an interactive, drag-clown, group therapy session. Through improvised songs, political parodies, breathing exercises and cult-like rituals, Herod asks one thing: forgive… yourself. Within the show’s chaotic absurdity lurks male accountability, self-reckoning and deep shadow work. Who is Herod’s process really for?

Created by Comedy Central-endorsed clown, Riss Obolensky, and director Eloïse Poulton. Award-winner of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Keep It Fringe fund and a VAULT Festival sell-out show, nominated for Show of the Week.

“The weirdest and best thing I’ve ever seen.” Lost Cabaret Bristol
“Funny, memorable, bold.” ★★★★★ The Reviews Hub
“Side-splitting laughs.” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
“Raging lesbian.” ★★★★★ DIVA Magazine
“Brilliantly weird.” ★★★★ Fringe Biscuit