Pandvani108 at the Soho Theatre

Pandvani108
With - Ben Haggarty, Laura Burns, Jo Blake Cave, Dominic Kelly, Cat Gerrard, Emily Parrish


The stage is set for a high voltage mythological mash up, as six tellers, tell six episodes of six epics! Inspired by a central Indian epic-singing tradition, a motley crew of storytellers combine stories, rhythm and stick-wielding to turn on the epic jukebox and create a bold and exuberant new storytelling form. This has more experimental excitement than you can shake a stick at…live and irresistibly direct!

PANDVANI 108
Associate ensemble of the Crick Crack Club, Pandvani 108 clattered noisily onto the storytelling scene in Autumn 2011. This summer they took Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival by storm and are busy brewing up plans to rock as many summer festivals as they possibly can in 2013. This wildy experimental group combines the skills of international performers and emergent artists to produce vivid, highly engaging, adrenaline filled performances of short sections myth and epic using a technique that combines a Storyteller, a ‘Ragi’ (whose interjections – both serious and comedic - spur the narrative ever onwards) and a deceptively ad hoc backing band. Allied by their mutual conviction of the need for artistic experimentation Pandvani 108 have created (accidentally on purpose) a startling new storytelling form described by audiences as ‘inspirationally brilliant’, ‘an unquestionable highlight’, ‘stunning’ and ‘totally addictive’.