Scary Little Girls

QUEENAGERS – Porthtowan
2024-03-13 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Chapel Hill, Porthtowan, Cornwall, TR4 8HL, United Kingdom
All hail the queen of cabaret events – a show comprising stand up, music, monologues and crafting that focuses on the funny side of the menopause and the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring. Join us at Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan, on Wednesday 13th March and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you!
Host, peri-menopausal glamour-puss Bunny Morethan aka Rebecca Mordan (Glastonbury Festival compère, Sky News ‘rent-a-feminist’ and BBC Writers Room) is here to learn all she can about what’s coming down the female line. In a perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause, Bunny will lead audiences on a be-sequined exploration of menopause and midlife.
And following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the outrageous stand up of Jennifer Kennedy – award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause, Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman and the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me? – brings you Menopausal Monologues. This is a collection of personal monologues breaking the silence around the menopause and giving voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Enjoy these two acts held together with music and song exploring and celebrating middle aged women – or Queenagers!
Join us before the show for cakes and cocktails with our women-only play list and some radical crafting!
This event is being held at various venues across Cornwall from the 8th – 10th March and the 12th – 14th March. Keep an eye on our events page for more details!
Buy your tickets here!

QUEENAGERS – Liskeard
2024-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Liskeard Library, Barras Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 6AB, United Kingdom
***This was our March event – we’re back at Liskeard Library with Queenagers on the 24th October! ***
All hail the queen of cabaret events – a show comprising stand up, music, monologues and crafting that focuses on the funny side of the menopause and the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring. Join us at Liskeard Library on Thursday 14th March and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you!
Host, peri-menopausal glamour-puss Bunny Morethan aka Rebecca Mordan (Glastonbury Festival compère, Sky News ‘rent-a-feminist’ and BBC Writers Room) is here to learn all she can about what’s coming down the female line. In a perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause, Bunny will lead audiences on a be-sequined exploration of menopause and midlife.
And following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the outrageous stand up of Jennifer Kennedy – award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause, Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman and the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me? – brings you Menopausal Monologues. This is a collection of personal monologues breaking the silence around the menopause and giving voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Enjoy these two acts held together with music and song exploring and celebrating middle aged women – or Queenagers!
Join us before the show for cakes and cocktails with our women-only play list and some radical crafting!
This event is being held at various venues across Cornwall from the 8th – 10th March and the 12th – 14th March. Keep an eye on our events page for more details!
Buy your tickets here!

Folklore Literary Salon
2024-04-19 19:30 - 21:00 | The Drapery, United Kingdom
Scary Little Girls director Rebecca Mordan is doing a Folklore Literary Salon as part of the Redruth Book Feast on Friday 19th April at the Redruth Drapery.
Grab your tickets here – they’re selling fast!

Cabaret with Claws
2024-05-10 19:30 - 21:00 | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Join us on the 10th May at The Poly, Falmouth for the first night of our Mayven Festival – Cabaret With Claws!
Mixing wicked humour and eclectic jazz and cabaret, interspersed with jaw-dropping circus in solo performances and ensemble creations, Charlie Bicknell’s shows receive critical acclaim and, just as importantly, foot-stamping encores.
In ‘Cabaret with Claws’ Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes present twisted takes on familiar themes, with Tim Minchin, Phil Nichols and Bonnie Tyler influences thrown in. Charlie has performed all over the world, from London to Dubai, Hong Kong and Sydney; Louise Innes with the ENO, ROC and at 10 Downing Street to name a few.
‘Witty, wanton, wonderful – Charlie Bicknell’s new show is cabaret with claws. She’s a heady, edgy high octane mix of English rose, vamp and Cruella, shamelessly sexy, murderously funny. You have been warned. Roses have thorns.’
Sue Arnold The Observer
Age guideline: 14+
Friday 10th May 7:30pm
Tickets: £12/£10
A £1 Poly Fund payment is added to each ticket sold.
Book your tickets here

This event has been made possible with a grant from the Shared Prosperity Fund

Build A Girl Workshop
2024-05-11 10:00 - 13:00 | The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore Street, Bodmin, PL31 2JX
Join Fiona Broadfoot, a survivor of teenage sex-trafficking to find out about her life, her 28 years of activism, her achievements including changing the law for women involved in the sex trade and setting up Build a Girl.
This session aims to support women to:

build a strong sense of self
make safe and informed choices
form healthy relationships

You’ll have the opportunity to collectively ‘build a girl’ and create your own self-esteem jar.
Tickets: £5, £3 concessions or pay what you can.

Feminist as Folk Cabaret - Bodmin
2024-05-11 19:30 - 21:00 | The Old Ambulance Hall, Dennison Rd, Bodmin, United Kingdom
From the company that brought you Best of the Fest and A Madcap Mayven Cabaret, this one-off event combines folk music, spoken word and circus with Scary Little Girls’ trademark warmth and hilarity!
Expect performances from queen of the scene Carolyn Francis and local legend Jenny Beare (Kernewek speaker and Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow).
All hosted by Glastonbury’s Bunny Morethan (aka Rebecca Mordan) and suffused with poems, sketches, comedy and feats of the fabulous from Scary Little Girls’ Radical Rep and Cirque du Ciel in an unforgettable evening that’s Feminist as Folk!
Tickets £12, £10 concessions or pay what you can afford – book here!

Creative Circle Writing Workshop
2024-05-12 14:00 - 16:00 | St Gluvius Hall, 48 West St, Calver Cl, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 8ER, United Kingdom
A creative writing workshop inspired by the many stone circles of Cornwall.
In this fun, interactive session, you will be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to produce your own complete piece of flash fiction. Led by Lorna Partington (writer, editor and director of The Writers Workshop in Sheffield), this session will be accessible to everyone from absolute beginners to seasoned wordsmiths.
Please bring a notebook and pen if possible.
Tickets are £10, £8 concessions or pay what you can! Book here.

CANCELLED: The Secret Art of Feminist Body Painting with Victoria Gugenheim
2024-05-12 16:00 - 18:00 | St Gluvius Hall, 48 West St, Calver Cl, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 8ER, United Kingdom
*** We’re sorry to say that this event has been cancelled. Victoria’s stunning body paint work will be visible on the incredible circus performers at our Feminist as Folk cabaret in Helston***

World Award-winning body painter and world-ranking make-up artist, Victoria Gugenheim is a revolutionary pushing the boundaries of her craft, integrating it with fantasy, high fashion, fine art, fact and fortitude with an impeccable track record.
We are very lucky to have Victoria running a body painting workshop as part of the Spring Mayven Festival. In this female only space, Victoria will introduce how to utilise bodypainting as a means of self-expression, working through trauma, embracing personal power and radical autonomy away from the male gaze.
Photos will only be taken with explicit consent given, and women will have a chance to sign up to her new documentary and exhibition project, Painted Powerful: My Body is Mine.
Tickets: £10, £8 concessions or pay what you can. Book here.

Feminist as Folk Cabaret - Helston
2024-05-12 19:30 - 21:00 | ‘Cirk Hes’ Space, Unit F8, Helston Business Park, Clodgey Lane, Helston, TR13 8FZ, United Kingdom
From the company that brought you Best of the Fest and A Madcap Mayven Cabaret, this one-off event combines folk music, spoken word and circus with Scary Little Girls’ trademark warmth and hilarity!
Expect performances from queen of the scene Carolyn Francis, local legends the Splendid Sisters (Melanie Young & Caroline Schanche), Femmes de la Mer and a solo spot from their multi-talented founder Claire Ingleheart.
All hosted by Glastonbury’s Bunny Morethan (aka Rebecca Mordan) and suffused with poems, sketches, comedy and feats of the fabulous from Scary Little Girls’ Radical Rep and Cirque du Ciel in an unforgettable evening that’s Feminist as Folk!
This workshop is now cancelled, but come along to see Victoria’s stunning body paint work on the incredible circus performers at our Feminist as Folk cabaret in Helston tonight!

The Late Great Wake
2024-05-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Cornwall
Ever wondered how a live podcast is made and wanted to be in the audience for one?
Join Rebecca Mordan (SLG founder), Lorna Partington (Off the Shelf Literature Festival prize winner) and Source Radio in this live recorded podcast as they pay tribute to Frida Kahlo.
Performers, singers and writers have created a fittingly wise, witty and dark eulogy to the heroine including her trials, tribulations and triumphs, and they invite you to stay on for a wake that puts the ‘fun’ into ‘funeral’!
All enjoyed along with a signature cocktail dedicated to the deceased doyenne.
Tickets £10, £8 concessions – book here!

Folk Storytelling - Penzance
2024-05-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Edge of the World Bookshop, 25/26 Market Jew Street, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2HR, United Kingdom
Come along to an intimate evening of storytelling in a unique, magical venue!
Featuring tales with themes of witches, ghosts and supernatural women. As always with our storytelling events, we’ll be combining Scary Little Girls’ finest performers and a welcoming environment with music, pathos, wit and song.
Tickets, £10, £7 concessions or pay what you can afford – book here!

Folk Storytelling - Tintagel
2024-05-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Witches in the Wilderness, Fore St, Tintagel, PL34 0DB, United Kingdom

Common Ground: Greenham on Film: Porthtowan
2024-05-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Chapel Hill, Porthtowan, Cornwall, TR4 8HL, United Kingdom
Join us at Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Porthtowan, at 7.30pm on the 15th May for an evening hearing all about life at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Hear songs and stories that bring the camp to life as we reflect on the impact of the camp 40 years on.
Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life. A screening of Carry Greenham Home will transport you back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece, shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
The evening will be a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.
Everyone 12+
Tickets £10/£8
Book your tickets here

This event has been made possible by Carn 2 Cove – thank you!

Feminist as Folk Cabaret - Redruth
2024-05-16 19:30 - 21:00 | The Ladder, Redruth Former Library Cic, ClintonRd,, Redruth, TR4 7PH, United Kingdom
From the company that brought you Best of the Fest and A Madcap Mayven Cabaret, this one-off event combines folk music, spoken word and circus with Scary Little Girls’ trademark warmth and hilarity!
A jam-packed night with performances from queens of the scene:

Carolyn Francis with her range of instruments & loop pedal
Frankie Armstrong – ‘One of the most compelling and beautiful of the folk voices of Britain’ – The Telegraph
Angeline Morrison – ‘She masters the precision of storytelling as well as its poetry’ – The Guardian
Rising star Flo Perlin – ‘Utterly captivating and instantly endearing’ – BBC 6 Music
Claire Ingleheart – Multi-instrumentalist, folk singer, composer, theatre maker, choir leader and founder of all female Shanty group, Femmes de la Mer.
Local music legends forming new Nos Lowen band TANEK to get you dancing!

All hosted by Glastonbury’s Bunny Morethan (aka Rebecca Mordan) and suffused with poems, sketches, comedy and feats of the fabulous from Scary Little Girls’ Radical Rep and Cirque du Ciel in an unforgettable evening that’s Feminist as Folk!
Tickets £12, £10 concessions or pay what you can afford – book here!

Singing Workshop: The Voices of the Archetypes of Myth with Frankie Armstrong and Imogen Roux
2024-05-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
This workshop provides an exciting way to expand and liberate vocal colour, range and expressivity.
It uses movement, imagination and storytelling to access a wide range of vocal qualities and expression through exploring figures that inhabit the world’s mythology, such as The Huntress, The Trickster, The Child, The Mother and The Crone. These archetypes are not a character or caricature but a particular aspect or quality in all of us.
Frankie then guides you through a story (the journey) which gives you the opportunity to inhabit the larger-than-life world of the timeless figures of mythology and legend and to discover the vocal qualities that they evoke.
Tickets: £10, £8 concessions or pay what you can.

Feminist as Folk Cabaret - Penzance
2024-05-17 19:30 - 21:00 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
From the company that brought you Best of the Fest and A Madcap Mayven Cabaret, this one-off event combines folk music, spoken word and circus with Scary Little Girls’ trademark warmth and hilarity!
Expect performances from queens of the scene:

Carolyn Francis with her range of instruments & loop pedal
Frankie Armstrong – ‘One of the most compelling and beautiful of the folk voices of Britain’ – The Telegraph
Rising star Flo Perlin – ‘Utterly captivating and instantly endearing’ – BBC 6 Music
Claire Ingleheart – Multi-instrumentalist, folk singer, composer, theatre maker, choir leader and founder of all female Shanty group, Femmes de la Mer.
Local favourites Pagan Teapot and Nell Davies

All hosted by Glastonbury’s Bunny Morethan (aka Rebecca Mordan) and suffused with poems, sketches, comedy and feats of the fabulous from Scary Little Girls’ Radical Rep and Cirque du Ciel in an unforgettable evening that’s Feminist as Folk!
Tickets £12, £10 concessions or pay what you can afford – book here!

Open Doors Day for Arts Practitioners in Cornwall!
2024-05-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Helston Old Cemetery, A394, Helston, TR13 8JA, United Kingdom
Join us in Helston on May 18th for this exciting Open Door Day for Cornish arts professionals!
This Open Door Day will start with an industry round table event, followed by a warm, celebratory introduction to the Helston Old Cemetery Chapel.
Open Doors Day Part 1: Round Table event, 1-2.30pm
Are you an arts practitioner based in Cornwall? Want to discuss the issues that local artists face and make a change? Join Scary Little Girls for this industry event with ‘Owdyado Theatre!
You may have come across the recent Performing Arts Workers Survey, which was circulated through emails and on Facebook. We have been heartened by the overwhelmingly positive and candid responses from 72 artists who completed the survey. While the survey underscores the abundance of ambition, talent, and passion in Cornwall’s performing arts community, it also sheds light on the frustration, anxiety, and exhaustion that many artists face.
We held an event in November 2023 to begin addressing these challenges by coming together in person to brainstorm solutions for the issues causing these concerns.
Through small, informal group discussions fuelled by tea and cake, we will explore the issues identified from the survey (local funding, gatekeeping, artistic freedom, valuing artists and disconnectedness), discuss progress made since our last event and plan next steps to affect positive change
Please note that this event is not open for the public and is exclusively for artists in Cornwall.
Open Door Day Part 2: Fling Open the Doors! 2.30-4pm(ish)
From day one, Trevow Helston wants to fling open the doors of our new creative space, Helston Old Cemetery Chapel, and welcome artists, makers, creative producers, community project facilitators and cultural movers and shakers. Tell us what you need from this new space and hear about our plans so far.
From 3.30pm you’re invited to bring a guest along and fill the space with conversation about what the chapel could do to support the Performance & Creative Industries in Cornwall.
At 4pm Scary Little Girls and Helston-based circus performers, Cirk Hes, will perform selected highlights from our Mayven Festival to give an idea of what the space can do! This will be followed by more shared dreaming and collaborative conversations about the future of Helston Old Cemetery Chapel.
We’d love to see you – you’re very welcome.
​Register here!

Common Ground: Greenham on Film: Golant, Fowey
2024-05-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Golant Village Hall, Water Lane, Golant, PL23 1LG, United Kingdom
Join us at Golant Village Hall, near Fowey, at 7.30pm on the 18th May for an evening hearing all about life at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Hear songs and stories that bring the camp to life as we reflect on the impact of the camp 40 years on.
Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life. A screening of Carry Greenham Home will transport you back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece, shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
The evening will be a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.
Everyone 12+
Tickets £10/£8
Book your tickets here

This event has been made possible by Carn 2 Cove – thank you!

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Penzance
2024-05-24 19:00 - 21:30 | The Hypatia Trust, The Regent, 54 Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AE
‘The mixture of comedy, songs and some hard-hitting facts made for an electric evening, and then the space for chats and tunes after was just what I needed, thank you so much for this transformative event – viva la vulva!’ – Audience Member at The Riot Showgrrrls Club, 2022
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is a cabaret show and participatory craftivism event using humour, songs and storytelling to entertain and encourage conversation about how much better than porn actual sex is.
Imagine a club where you are greeted with sparkling wine, a suggestive cake and the feminist hand-stamp of your choosing…
In this club you are part of a show that combines Patriarchy Bingo, PowerPoint and madrigals about the vulva in a fast-paced, feel-good (mostly) feminist fling about great sex in an age of terrible porn.
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is run by your hosts, glamorous comediennes and singers who have the truth-telling powers of Cassandra, the political punch of Gloria Steinem and the high quality daftness of Melissa McCarthy (in her great films like the Heat and Spy, not those rubbish ones her husband directs).
How does such a night end? Well, after the show you stay on in the club to listen to the women-only DJ set, make your own club membership card with our Radical Craftivist, have some more drinks and get your conversation on – ‘cos in our revolution we’ll find sisterhood and there will be dancing!
Originally commissioned for the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh in 2008, when lad mags were in their heyday, cabaret meant tit tassels and female stripping and porn was being mainstreamed right into our cultural veins, Scary Little Girls bravely took a pro-sex anti-porn show to Edinburgh.
Book your tickets here and check out the other show dates in our blog here!

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Redruth
2024-05-25 19:30 - 22:00 | The Ladder, Redruth Former Library Cic, ClintonRd,, Redruth, TR4 7PH, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Newquay
2024-05-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Newquay Orchard, Yeoman Way, Newquay, TR7 2SL, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Penryn
2024-05-29 19:30 - 22:00 | Fish Factory Art Space, The Sail Loft (Ground Floor), Commercial Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 8AG, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Helston
2024-05-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Helston Old Cemetery, A394, Helston, TR13 8JA, United Kingdom

Riot Showgrrrls Club - Liskeard
2024-05-31 19:00 - 21:30 | Sterts, Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross, Liskeard, PL14 5AZ
***PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE – this will now be held at STERTS not The Liskerett Centre. All original tickets are still valid.***
‘The mixture of comedy, songs and some hard-hitting facts made for an electric evening, and then the space for chats and tunes after was just what I needed, thank you so much for this transformative event – viva la vulva!’ – Audience Member at The Riot Showgrrrls Club, 2022
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is a cabaret show and participatory craftivism event using humour, songs and storytelling to entertain and encourage conversation about how much better than porn actual sex is.
Imagine a club where you are greeted with sparkling wine, a suggestive cake and the feminist hand-stamp of your choosing…
In this club you are part of a show that combines Patriarchy Bingo, PowerPoint and madrigals about the vulva in a fast-paced, feel-good (mostly) feminist fling about great sex in an age of terrible porn.
The Riot Showgrrrls Club is run by your hosts, glamorous comediennes and singers who have the truth-telling powers of Cassandra, the political punch of Gloria Steinem and the high quality daftness of Melissa McCarthy (in her great films like the Heat and Spy, not those rubbish ones her husband directs).
How does such a night end? Well, after the show you stay on in the club to listen to the women-only DJ set, make your own club membership card with our Radical Craftivist, have some more drinks and get your conversation on – ‘cos in our revolution we’ll find sisterhood and there will be dancing!
Originally commissioned for the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh in 2008, when lad mags were in their heyday, cabaret meant tit tassels and female stripping and porn was being mainstreamed right into our cultural veins, Scary Little Girls bravely took a pro-sex anti-porn show to Edinburgh.
Book your tickets here and check out the other show dates in our blog here!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event will now be held at Sterts, rather than the Liskerrett Centre. All original tickets are still valid. This is through no fault of the original venue and we look forward to holding future shows there.

It's Your Round - Redruth
2024-06-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Civic Centre, Alma Place, Redruth, TR15 2DA, United Kingdom
A PUB QUIZ WITH A CABARET TWIST!
Originally commissioned by Creative Arts East and Cornerstone, Didcot, this show brings you the best of modern cabaret comedy and a traditional pub quiz. Join Quiz Mistress and Pub Landlady PAT PINCH as she takes over your local with live music, prizes, audience participation and, of course, a few drinks!
Test your team with rounds such as:
– How local are you? So down with your town you can almost taste it…?
– Jumping Juke Box! Movie and music rounds – with a difference.
– Plus general knowledge, photo and bonus rounds!
Whether you’re a liver-bashing barfly or a strict abstainer, a quiz mastermind or an absolute beginner, PAT is waiting to treat you to six of the best pub quiz rounds EVER!
Scary Little Girls specialise in presenting intelligent entertainment in a totally accessible format – expect our unique take on the picture and music rounds and enjoy the literature, movie & general knowledge rounds coming to life in a way never before seen in a pub quiz!
‘Fast and funny…cleverly written, with strong performances from the two-woman-cast throughout…comical beyond belief and sprinkled with hilarious musical interludes.‘ Oxford Times
“Scary Little Girls… stars of rural touring!” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Grab your tickets here!

It's Your Round - Bude
2024-06-07 19:30 - 21:00 | The Wharf, Unit 1, Lower The Wharf, Bude, EX23 8LG, United Kingdom

Artist Support Surgery with Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan
2024-07-11 | Hall for Cornwall
Book time to talk to our own Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan on the 11th July at Hall for Cornwall
Got a creative query? Based in Cornwall? Book in now to get support and advice from the best – our own Becca!
Rebecca 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.
Rebecca has written, directed, produced and performed while working with a wide range of partners including the BFI, Glastonbury Festival and Hall for Cornwall. 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. Out of the Darkness the title of her first book publication in 2021, based on the Greenham interviews.
Rebecca is a founding 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, Women’s Hour, and Sky News.
Book in for a support surgery now to answer any creative queries

Cornish Stories - Creative Workshop
2024-08-10 12:00 - 14:00 | The Ladder, Redruth Former Library Cic, ClintonRd,, Redruth, TR4 7PH, United Kingdom
Join us to discover stories collected from across the county and create your own creative response to add to our collection.
We’ve been collecting stories through our Chatty Cakey Tea events and you can discover all about the lives of the people who live in local communities through their own words. Listen to our collected stories and create your own images using collage and print to illustrate some of these incredible tales.
Or simply join us to find out more about The Living Room and add your own story of Cornwall to our archive.
Cornish Stories is a SPF funded project which seeks to capture local myths, legends and personal stories through the voices of the people who live here. Look out for The Living Room coming soon in autumn 2024 – a magical story-exploring caravan coming to a community near you! You’ll also be able to listen to stories from across the county in our Digital Living Room and full length interviews will be stored with Kresen Kernow.

Duffy Beats the Devil
2024-09-25 19:00 - 21:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
This autumn, we will be performing our all-singing, all-dancing, thigh-slappingly funny show based on a classic Cornish tale, back by popular demand after its previous sold out run!
Prepare to be transported to a colourful Penzance from days of yore with Duffy and her friends! This show is based on the Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin and features a dazzling cast of local and national talent including Johanne Murdock (His Dark Materials, Emmerdale) and Kate Rawson (Hall for Cornwall, Radio 4). Celebrate Penwith folklore with Cherry of Zennor, witch Maggie Figgie (and her piggy!) and of course working-class hero Duffy – can she and her pals triumph over the very Devil?
Cornish cheer, fun for the whole family, an original score by Cornish composer and fan favourite TJ Holmes (Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh) and stunning design and puppets by Jude Munden (Miracle, English Touring Opera) combine in this hilarious production in the perfect setting of the magical Minack Theatre.
Get your tickets here!

Duffy Beats the Devil
2024-09-26 15:00 - 17:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
This autumn, we will be performing our all-singing, all-dancing, thigh-slappingly funny show based on a classic Cornish tale, back by popular demand after its previous sold out run!
Prepare to be transported to a colourful Penzance from days of yore with Duffy and her friends! This show is based on the Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin and features a dazzling cast of local and national talent including Johanne Murdock (His Dark Materials, Emmerdale) and Kate Rawson (Hall for Cornwall, Radio 4). Celebrate Penwith folklore with Cherry of Zennor, witch Maggie Figgie (and her piggy!) and of course working-class hero Duffy – can she and her pals triumph over the very Devil?
Cornish cheer, fun for the whole family, an original score by Cornish composer and fan favourite TJ Holmes (Hall for Cornwall, Kneehigh) and stunning design and puppets by Jude Munden (Miracle, English Touring Opera) combine in this hilarious production in the perfect setting of the magical Minack Theatre.
Get your tickets here!
We are delighted to offer a touch tour for visually impaired audience members before this show at 2pm – more info here!
