Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess
LOOK at a picture, what do you see? How do you know where to look on it to understand the information it is conveying?
WITHOUT doubt this was totally mesmerising, the quality of story-telling was superb and the structure of the piece outstanding.
WATCHING this I felt as if I had stepped back in time, not just to the “never, never time” suggested by Elsie’s costume but also back into my own childhood.
IN a year when most have been unable to travel any further than the end of their garden or local park, it was a real joy to have this by Rose Condo which looked not only at the idea of travelling and which considered not only the physical aspects of travel and being able to travel but also the metaphysical nature of journeying.
IT was always somewhat inevitable that when three story-tellers from vastly differing backgrounds -Kevin Crossley-Holland, Joanne Harris and Ben Okri - get together to discuss stories that there would be as many questions raised by their answers as there were original questions put to them.
IF you want to know about the nature of a people, then you need only to listen to their stories.
FOR me, a definite highlight of the on-line festival of story has been the inclusion of a weekly folk music session, for if telling traditional tales are a way of embodying the soul of a culture then folk music is a way of the heart setting it free for all to hear. It is not surprising then that across the country there are so many similar versions of songs which retell the same story with local variations.
