Available in formats to fit your event:
- 45 minutes After Dinner
- 80 or 85 or 90 minutes + interval Theatre show
- 55 minutes Festival performance
- 20 minutes Cabaret spot
2012 London Olympics Hospitality
"Fantastic performance, thank you!"
- C. Stephens, 'Eurofile' European teachers' conference
THE LOST LEGENDS OF BRITAIN
In 2012, it's time to put Britain's fabulous heritage centre stage.
The ancient stories of the British Isles take us into a world of wild magic, otherworld creatures, beautiful love tragedy and more.
Wickedly funny, dark and tender.
Edge-of-your-seat drama.
Told LIVE: no reading, no scripts!
King Arthur is in hilarious trouble; Sir Gawain finds and loses love.
From Scottish husband taming to cunning Cotswold women and stormy Welsh drama, these are stories with guts and energy.
• Full length performances include my signature piece: the legend of the Rollright Stones circle (Cotswolds)
Puritans and Victorians tried to destroy them; the video age nearly forgot them.
Discover the stories that slipped out of sight, except among keepers of tales...
21st Century Scrooge
Celebrating Charles Dickens' 200th birthday
It's Christmas Eve in the City. A workaholic businesswoman bullies her downtrodden secretary, single mum Roberta Cratchit. This modern Scrooge faces four spectacular ghosts - and a spinechilling warning. All is joyously resolved.
Originally commissioned for an HR conference on Work/Life Balance, this is Chloë’s powerful and moving parallel of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol
• 55 minute performance
"Brilliant heartwarming performance, took many by surprise"
- Director, Cotswold Art Study Centre
Tales of Lust & Chocolate
Forbidden desire, spicy romance, pure greed!
Deliciously naughty stories sizzling with sensuality.
From passionate porcelain to a knight with a huge.. sword. Funny, racy and only for adults 16+
Contains humorous adult references
• Wonderful with chocolate tasting! Perfect for Hen Parties + Fairytale Weddings!
"A slick, beautifully delivered show which left the audience wanting more" - Standard
Voice of Darkness
Truth and fantasy meet in shadow. Revenge and death; lover and beast; macabre mystery and chilling contemporary tales.
Evocatively accompanied by midi synthesizer + sound effects gizmo.
Step into a world of strangeness.
You will be frightened. You will enjoy it.
Contains adult references and some disturbing material
For Late Night Cabaret and Hallowe'en season.
- Forbidden for under 12s.
Electric Tales
It’s storytelling – but not as you know it…
This is the voyage of a high energy raconteur - crossing the final frontier to seek out new forms, discovering the next generation of legends for our future.
From gold and guns in Africa to UFOs ancient and modern.
Eerie sound effects from midi keyboard + gizmo.
- Optional: textile art backdrop created by young artist Charlotte Fothergill
Stories contain mild adult references. Not suitable for young children
Festive Fables
Wonderful winter stories from around the world; deep and crisp and thought provoking!
Legends of ice magic and romance in red velvet; old Babushka as you've never heard her before...
Calling to the true spirit of Christmas in all.
Perfect pre-December 25th.
• As above, also 30-40 minute version for Families.
Also available for special events and seasonal entertainment
Running times as above or as required
Tales to Float your Boat
A voyage through the storms of the human heart. With monsters from the deep, river magic, tidal love tragedy, the island that swam away and legends of lake and billabong. Different versions for adults and for family entertainment
As featured on Fred Olsen cruises
Country Tales from the Cotswolds
From the land of honey-golden stone... Highwaymen, a doubly defeated devil and Chloë's beautiful signature story - the Legend of the Rollright Stones.
Sold out at village halls in the 'Air in G' 2005-06 Gloucestershire Rural Touring scheme.
Wildwood Tales
Powerful legends of forest and woodland.
From a murderous oak to trees uprooted for war, to a carpenter with a thorny problem. Lots of laughs plus scary bits!
Not suitable for under 8s.
Tales from the Secret Garden
Beautiful, witty and moving stories of gardens and the natural world. Humour from the first garden, Maori and Native American creation myths, and.. er.. a lot of balls on the patio... Contains mild adult references. Suitable for 12+ only.
As featured in Cheltenham's series of Secret Gardens Story Concerts
Wine, Women & Stories
Vintage tales from lands of wine and whisky.
A potent brew of French romance, New World mystery, a cheeky Australian, a handsome Greek and a hard-drinking westcountry farmer...
Contains mild adult references. Not suitable for children.
WINE TASTING SPECIAL:
a story from every featured wine-producing country. Adults only.
As featured at Wine Bars and Restaurants in the Cotswolds and London
Tales on Fire - celebrate Candlemas / Imbolc
Sizzling romance, domestic bridge-burning and fiery courage. How to charm a sulking sun goddess or a lovestruck sun god. Feelgood fun to celebrate the return of light and warmth to the world, at the start of February.
Photo this page by Dean Oseman/Fat Beagle Photography, Gloucestershire, England