Crick Crack Club - Midir and Etain: The Love of One Thousand Years

10th century science fiction, meets Irish epic, meets fantasy, meets horror strip, meets passion play...

Epic storyteller, Ben Haggarty, and wild musician Sianed Jones, tell the extraordinary story of two deities whose cursed pursuit of love spans a thousand years - surviving complex love triangles; impossible quests; multiple monstrous reincarnations, and the partitioning of the world into the land of the mortals and a dark Otherworld.

Ben Haggarty's intensely physical performance is perfectly matched by Sianed Jones' brooding soundscapes that occasionally burst into song. Together they cast a spell of archaic magic; balancing the surreal and the comedic with an atmosphere of epic power conjured by the gods, both jealous and generous.

This unbridled fantasy is based on a startling work of 10th Century Irish literature salvaged from a Cheltenham convent, and when you hear it, you'll wonder just what the nuns were doing with it...

'The is real storytelling' THE GUARDIAN HAY FESTIVAL.

'I was spell-bound - I don't use the word lightly' THE TIMES.