TYBURN JIG Storytelling Theatre

PHOTOS COMING SOON (Honest!)
Phew! Tyburn Jig are recovering froma busy summer with appearances at Cardiff Harbour Festival, Moseley Folk Festival, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Dartmouth Castle, Tintagel Castle, Royal Armouries Fort Nelson...

Photographs from the busy summer period are being worked on, watch this space for news, views and more, coming soon!

Saturday JULY 11th
"Peasants Revolt" mayhem and medieval madness at
PENRYN MEDIEVAL CHARTER DAY
PENRYN, CORNWALL

Tues JULY 28th
Royal Armouries Fort Nelson, "HEROES OF THE EMPIRE"

AUGUST
English Heritage Dartmouth Castle (Featuring our NEW TUDOR SHOW "TUDOR TALL TALES") every Tuesday,
English Heritage Tintagel Castle, Pirates on Wednesdays, Tales Of King Arthur and Merlin on Thursdays

AUGUST 22, 23, 24,
Blists Hill Victorian Town
Heroes Of The Empire present "Around the World in 80 Ways" Huzzah! featuring an exciting new character Veronica Wartsworthy-Trumpetmouth

AUGUST 29th 30th 31st
CARDIFF HARBOUR FESTIVAL
Watch out for Captain Jeremiah Obadiah (the luckiest man in England) and Captain "Red Handed" Patience Flint who will amongst the crowds for mischief and mayhem.

MOSELEY FOLK FESTIVAL, September 5th and 6th
The Pirates are back in town... this time Captain Jeremiah Obadiah (the luckiest man in England) will be accompanied by none other than the fearsome Pirate Queen Captain Patience "Red-Handed" Flint

Tues SEPT 8th
Royal Armouries Fort Nelson, "TYBURN JIG" Pirates!

TYBURN JIG
Dave and Jon of TYBURN JIG Theatre, and hosts of -Exeter Story Club- are currently recording a pair of CDs of their "Tales Of King Arthur and Merlin" with wonderous music by Paul Whittall.
In due course you will be able to check out the details here on the TYBURN JIG Theatre page.

If you are interested in Exeter Story Club (first weds every month) check out the link below.

In a nutshell: We do storytelling theatre shows, based around either: an 18th century swashbuckling and pirate theme, a medieval theme, or a Victorian adventure story theme. These shows take the form of either: set-performances usually lasting around 40 minutes; or playing walk-about characters interracting with the public, other entertainers, stallholders and so on. At some venues we do just storytelling shows, at others we just do walk-about. At some we do both. It really just depends what kind of event and venue it is. We tailor our performances to the requirements of our venue, client and audience

As an example of how we work: With our pirate "Tyburn Jig" show we tell our tales in-character, as Captain Jeremiah Obadiah, and Dr Thomas Clinker, villainous but charming rogues who have travelled the world in search of adventure, loot and a free lunch. Capt Jeremiah and Dr Clinker are often accompanied on their travels by some strange puppet characters including Europe's only talking rat.

It seems that almost everyone likes Pirates!

10/11th May 2008
"Heroes of the Empire" at Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Victorian Weekend
www.lynton-rail.co.uk/visitors/special_events

17/18th May 2008
Wheaton Aston Folk Festival
http://www.wheatonastonfestival.supanet.com/

26 May 2008
Stockland Village Fete, Devon

27 May 2008
Fort Nelson, Royal Armouries Pirate Day

25 June 2008
"Story Soup" at Exeter Summer Festival, Devon
lunchtime stories for adults
12-12.45 1300-13.45
at the Guildhall

26 JUNE 2008
Polperro Festival
http://www.polperrofestivalsandlights.co.uk/

5th/6th July 2008
Saul Canal Festival www.junctionevents.org.uk/index.htm

12th July
Hatherleigh Festival, Devon
www.hatherleighfestival.co.uk

19th/20th July 2008
Festival At The Edge Storytelling Festival
www.festivalattheedge.org/index.php?id=9

Throughout August 2008
Tales Of King Arthur and Merlin at TINTAGEL CASTLE
wednesdays and thursdays 6th & 7th, 13th & 14th, 20th & 21st, 27th & 28th, of August

Pirate Tales at PORTLAND CASTLE monday 4th & monday 11th August

Pirate Tales at DARTMOUTH CASTLE tuesday 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th August.

16th & 17th AUGUST
BEAUTIFUL DAYS FESTIVAL, Devon

23rd/24th/25th August 2008
St Bartholomew's Day Fair
Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire.

30th/31st August 2008 Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham

SOME OF THE DIFFERENT SHOWS THAT TYBURN JIG OFFER ARE DETAILED BELOW

Jolly splendid adventure in the age of Queen Victoria
presented by gentlemen-heroes Major Mordecai Manley-Hartethrobbe and Professor Augustus Sidebottom-Farquar.

Hear tales of dastardly criminal masterminds and
foreign spies thwarted, of strange science and the
menace posed by the threat of Martian invasion!

Madcap swashbuckling piratical
entertainment with those travelling tall-tale tinkers Captain Jeremiah Obadiah, the luckiest man in England, and Dr Thomas Clinker. Hear of strange voyages and cargoes, ships and shipmates, fortunes and hearts won and lost. Huzzah!

Merlin and King Arthur recount some of their famous and not-so-famous stories. Tales of quests, knights, kings, magic and monsters. Hear of The Birth of Arthur, The Round Table, Gawain and the Green Knight, the magic of Morgan Le Fay, Tristan and Iseult and Biffan the Barber and more besides.

Two tawdry and bawdy holy-relic sellers present the underside of medieval life; are they Holy Fools, or just idiots? With travellers packs full of curious objects, and stories to match.

Jon Freeman
TYBURN JIG Theatre Co
01392 430451
07814994441
foolserrand@hotmail.co.uk

April
-23rd St Georges Day Celebrations Coventry City Centre

May
-19th Kettering Living History event
-28th Stockland Village Fete (Devon)

June
17th: Polperro Festival Cornwall

30th - 1st July: Saul Canal Festival, Gloucestershire --CANCELLED DUE TO FLOODING

July
-21 & 22 Festival at the Edge, Much Wenlock Shropshire

Wed 25 July - Tintagel Castle; appearing as "Tales of King Arthur and Merlin"

Thurs 26th July - Honiton Medieval Faire (We will be Performing as "Peasants Revolt")

August
Wed 1st 8th, 15th 22nd and 29th August - Tintagel Castle; (appearing in a different guise as "Tales of King Arthur and Merlin")

-10th 11th & 12th August; Blenheim Palace Jousting (Performing as "Peasants Revolt")

Wed 8th, 15th 22nd and 29th August - Tintagel Castle; (appearing as "Tales of King Arthur and Merlin")

25,26.27 August-St Bartholomew's Fair, Blists Hill Museum, Ironbridge, Shropshire (performing our rather splendid Victorian show as "Heroes of the Empire")

September
1st & 2nd Mosely Folk Festival

October

December
8th/9th Lanhydrock House Christmas Fair
appearing in our Victorian guise as the most splendid "HEROES OF THE EMPIRE"