Crick Crack Club Presents: Gilgamesh

Over 3,500 years after this ancient Sumerian epic was first outlined on stone tablets, storyteller Ben Haggarty and musician Jonah Brody (Sam Lee & Friends, Super Best Friends Club), bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary and powerful performance of one of the oldest stories in the world.

This ultimate quest story, of a bored tyrant ruling a city so beautiful that even the Gods choose to make it their home, makes for a beguiling exploration into the nature of power; the search for eternal life; the threat of apocalypse, and the deepest secrets of the gods.

Passionate, psychedelic and packed with quick-witted humour, Gilgamesh, journeys through a vivid metaphorical landscape of pride, love, retribution and grief, where deities are irritated and appeased by turn, insults are freely traded and where our anti-hero turned hero, discovers what it really is to be a man.

“Vivid, rich and imposingly epic” **** Dominic Maxwell, The Times
“I was spellbound - I don't use the word lightly” Erica Wagner, The Times