Midnightstorytellers
Chloe Lees


"Few people have as much passion for their art as Chloë...
   In three years she entertained hundreds if not thousands of visitors.
   She has a way of captivating her audience and drawing them inside her story.

One concert was especially notable as the audience sat in total silence, transfixed on Chloë; then at the end, the most rapturous applause that I have ever heard!
   Amazing.
   Even those times when it pours with rain and only a few people turn up, she still gives the same dynamic performance."

- Events Manager, the National Arboretum at Westonbirt
(Forestry Commission)

Shows

Story Cabaret sets - mainly for adults
Perfect for your party or corporate event - a speciality act with a difference

"That's proper storytelling, that is..."

Bespoke service: What's your Theme? - Chloë can find stories to match

Tales of Lust & Chocolate
Forbidden desire, spicy romance, pure greed...  Never blue but deliciously naughty stories from lands of sun, sand and sizzling sensuality.
     Adults revel in these tales of blazing passion from Thailand, repressed urges in the Caribbean, double delight in Egypt, an English knight with a huge.. sword and a Swiss chocolatier with a dangerous appetite.  A funny, racy, melt-in-the-mouth show.
     For adults 15+ only
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner for Adults
* 90 minutes with interval Theatre show
   Wonderful with chocolate tasting! 

"A slick, beautifully delivered show which left the audience wanting more" - Standard

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After Dark
Chloë's mesmerising voice transports you to a world of chills and thrills.  Classic ghost yarns + strange tales from the present day. Plus unusual and darkly humorous stories from around the world.  Wishes go tragically wrong. Trespassers will die.  And something nasty crawls in through the bedroom window!
     You'll smell the woodsmoke, shiver with cold, see the shadows closing in... Spinetingling
     For Late Night Cabaret and the Hallowe'en season.  Not suitable for young children.
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner and 90 minutes with interval Theatre style
   As featured at Westcountry Storytelling Festival

"A master storyteller who can make the prosaic present disappear, and conjure up the sinister and unfamiliar to take its place" - Cotswold Life

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Muck & Magic: Great Legends of Britain
and
The Lion, The Leek & The Thistle 
and
Afternoon Tea and Tales
Packed sets of spellbinding stories celebrating more than 300 years of the United Kingdom.  Mainly traditional, brilliantly updated.
     Fascinating yarns of witches, wit and weird goings-on in the woods... Tales include husband-management from the Scottish Highlands, wild Welsh magic and deadly revenge in an English country garden. Bold knights, strong women, charming rogues!
     Ideal for adults and teens. Probably not suitable for very young children. 

Country Tales from the Cotswolds
Entertaining and spooky! From the landscape of honey-golden stone, wide skies and horizontal weather... Including a clever Cotswold woman who traps the devil, assorted highwaymen meeting their grisly fate, and Chloë's stunning signature story - the Legend of the Rollright Stones: guarding the heart of England to the end of time.
     Warmly acclaimed at village halls in the Rural Touring scheme.

"Fantastic performance, thank you!" - C. Stephens, 'Eurofile' European teachers' conference 

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Festive Fables
A winter feast of rare and wonderful stories from around the world; deep and crisp and thought provoking!  From legends of ice magic to Babushka as you've never heard her before... Packed with joy and generosity, calling to the true spirit of Christmas in all.
    Perfect pre-December 25th.
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner for Adults and variant for Families
* 90 minutes with interval Theatre show

Stuff the Turkey
The perfect antidote to Christmas! Wicked yarns to warm your winter heart - including a genie suffering from global competition and King Arthur up to his crown in snow and trouble.
     Great for Twelfth Night entertainment and January pick-me-up!
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner mainly for Adults

"An evening of sheer delight" - Standard 

21st Century Scrooge  
Story Cabaret for Business audiences – a fresh angle on the work/life balance
     It's Christmas Eve in the City. A workaholic businesswoman sneers at everything festive and bullies her downtrodden secretary, single mum Roberta Cratchit.
     That night, this modern Scrooge faces four spectacular ghosts - and a magical journey. After a spinechilling warning in the London Underground all is resolved in a joyously life-affirming finale.
     Originally commissioned for an HR conference, this is Chloë’s powerful and moving parallel of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol.
* 55 minutes Cabaret or Theatre performance

"Brilliant heartwarming performance, took many by surprise" - Director, Cotswold Art Study Centre  

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Wildwood Tales
An edge-of-your-seat journey through dark legends of ancient forests + wilderness. From a murderous oak to woods uprooted for war; from a carpenter with a thorny problem to the dramatic revenge of an eco-warrior.
   These are tales with teeth.  Some of them could be true. Not suitable for young children.
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner and Cabaret for Adults
* 30 - 45 minutes for Schools and Teens
* 90 minutes with interval Theatre show

Cultivated Tales
and
Tales from the Secret Garden
Wit, warmth and wisdom from many cultures in beautiful and moving stories of gardens and the natural world.  With wry humour from the Garden of Eden, plus Maori and Native American creation myths, and.. er.. a lot of balls on the patio...
     Perfect for your outdoor events
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner and Cabaret mainly for Adults
* 30 - 45 minutes for all ages in School
* 90 minutes with interval Theatre show - as featured in Cheltenham's series of Secret Gardens Story Concerts

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Wine, Women & Stories
When your guests thirst for classy entertainment... 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...
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner and Cabaret for Adults

WINE TASTING SPECIAL: a story from every featured wine-producing country. Adults only.
As featured on many memorable evenings at Wine Bars and Restaurants in the Cotswolds and London

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Tales on Fire
Lively mix from lands of sunshine. With stories of sizzling romance, domestic bridge-burning and fiery courage. Plus how to charm a sun goddess who sulks every year, and control a sun god in love.
     Fabulous feelgood fun for your motivational event and to celebrate Candlemas/Imbolc - the return of light and warmth to the world - in early spring
* 45 - 60 minutes After Dinner and Cabaret for Adults
* 30 - 60 minutes for Families
* 90 minutes with interval Theatre performance 

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Tales to Float your Boat
A fabulous voyage through the storms of the human heart.  With monsters from the deep, river magic, tidal love tragedy, important questions about merpeople, the island that swam away and the danger of glimpsing a goddess in her bath.  Plus legends of lake and billabong.
     As featured at West London Canal Project and National Waterways Museum, Gloucester
* 20 - 30 minute spots during event schedule
* 45 - 60 minutes Family performance

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