Dreaming the Great Bear - The Kalevala

A cow stands in a fire holding sun and moon between her horns.

A pine martin gathers spit from the mouth of a bear to brew beer.

An egg falls from a nest just balanced on the sky-girl’s knee.

And from its broken shards, nothing becomes something….

Storyteller, musician and singer, Nick Hennessey forges a world into being. Here in the Finnish far north the light is a just little too bright and the dark a little too blinding, the rivers flow fast and deep, and it’s all too easy to get lost in the forest.

Held within a wild enchanted soundscape of story, song, percussion, mbira, and harp – this remarkable performance of elemental epic lures us into the untamed, playful, and surreal territories of the Finnish creation myth – the Kalevala.

Time: 7:45pm

Running Time: 1 hour

Venue: Studio, York Theatre Royal

Age: 14+

Price: Standard £19, Under 16 £12

Content Warning: This performance may contain descriptions of birth, death, sex, threat and violence, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.