The Mayven

Gather like witches for the Spring equinox and let’s bring life and light from the dark!

With the moon above us and the sun shining a little longer each day, it’s time to rise from the underworld of winter, through the rich soil of sisterhood and unfurl our creative buds forth as spring draws near.

Using songs, storytelling and comedy, we will create an evening exploring women’s experiences ranging from the sinister to the sensual, the divine to the downright daft. Join us in joy, rage and celebration as we rejuvenate and invigorate!

Artists:

Emer O Connor

Emer O Connor is an actor, comedian & storyteller. Emer was born in Belfast and grew up with the myths of the Ulster Cycle, she also collects tales from all over the world. As a storyteller, Emer has spun stories at Festival at the Edge, 40Winks Bedtime Story Nights, pubs (with her telling partner Rose Allwork – the Stokey Spinners had a two year residency in The Auld Shillelagh, Hackney), playgrounds, homes, graveyards and wild cabaret nights.

Working alongside her fellow Mayvens, Emer has created new tales hewn from old to fit the place of telling; as a Hackneyite of more than two decades she can’t wait to see what bubbles up for The Muddle Puddle.

Alice Robinson

Since graduating from RADA, Alice has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and podcast maker.

Credits include ‘Peter Pan‘ (Minack Theatre for Scary Little Girls), ‘From Rushmere With Love‘ (Eastern Angles), and Muffin in the original UK cast of ‘Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody‘.

For the Greenham Women Everywhere project, she has edited over 100 interviews with women who lived at and supported the Greenham Common Peace Camp, and created the narrative podcast ‘Greenham Uncommon‘. She is a member of the Radical Rep Company for the Mayven Festival.

Radhika Aggarwal

Actor, voice-over, writer, musician, audiophile and emerging stand-up, Radhika aka ‘Rad’ loves collaboratively creating experiences

She’s performed at hundreds of venues in UK and internationally – from cosy village halls, diy festival stages, to the biggest theatre stages in the land. Alumni of Soho Theatre Writers Lab, she is developing her first play ‘Epilation Nation’, currently a collection of hairy anecdotes. Also a drummer (and brass player), she gigs with her band Extradition Order.

Over lockdown she set up Echo Chamber Audio to explore place-based audio storytelling and they have 2 exciting GPS triggered audio installations launching in the new year!

Rebecca Mordan

Rebecca Mordan is Artistic Director and the beating heart of Scary Little Girls.

After graduating from Sheffield University with a BA in English Literature, Rebecca spent 3 years at Bristol Old Vic. She has worked as an actor in film, theatre and television, and founded award-winning production hub Scary Little Girls, to create roles and opportunities for women and populate stories with diverse female characters.

With SLG, Rebecca has written, directed, produced and performed while working with a wide range of partners including the BFI, Glastonbury Festival and Hall for Cornwall (for whom she is an Associate Artist). She recently co-wrote and presented The Greenham Effect for the BBC’s Archive on Four, drawing on the 200 plus testimonials she helped gather from Greenham Women as part of the Greenham Women Everywhere project she co-foundered.

2021 has also seen the publication of her first book, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices drawing on these interviews. Her first piece of fiction for radio was featured in The UK Project, in which she was asked to represent the Cornish voice, out this year.

She is a founder member of KerPow, Cornish female artists tackling sex and gender discrimination and has been a campaigner against male violence for over 25 years. Thanks to this she is often a ‘rent-a-feminist’ guest for BBC Radio, including You and Yours, 5 Live and Women’s Hour, and Sky News.

Booking link coming soon – watch this space!