£12.50 + Booking Fee. Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.
Note change of venue from The Constitutional to The Old Woollen. All original tickets still valid.
"A beautiful piece of work" - STUART MACONIE, BBC 6 MUSIC
Featuring the voice of Alan Moore and the music of Oddfellow's Casino.
Combining music, animation and archive film with a captivating monologue, David Bramwell takes audiences on a dreamy candle-lit journey, in search of the supernatural secrets of our rivers, and a drowned village which has long haunted his memories.
From Doncaster (where he grew up) Bramwell travels up the river Don and back in time, through the ladybird plague and drought of 1976 to the heavily polluted Don of Sheffield’s steel industry, up into the Pennines and back into a pre-Christian era when rivers and springs were worshipped as living deities.
Along the journey Bramwell battles with his own thalassophobia (the fear of ‘what lurks beneath’); learns about hydromancy from magician Alan Moore, discovers a unique forest of figs growing on the banks of the Don and encounters Jarvis Cocker on his own adventures, sailing down the Don on an inflatable inner tube.
His journey finally brings him face to face with the goddess of primordial waters, Danu, who gave her name to the Don.
At the start of the show there will be a 10 minutes Q&A, with a particular focus on Leeds own river, The Aire.
David Bramwell is a Sony-Award winning presenter for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, having made programmes on subjects ranging from Ivor Cutler to time travel. He has won awards for ‘Outstanding Theatre’ and ‘Best Comedy’ for his one-man shows and is the author of The Haunted Moustache, The No9 Bus to Utopia and The Odditorium.
‘A masterful storyteller’ - RADIO TIMES