Dominic will be performing Crow at 3.30pm in the Coronation Hall Supper Room on Saturday 10th July
Tickets £4.00/£2.50

Intelligent, ruthless, stark, graceful… crows haunt not only the landscapes around us, but also the human inner world. Folktale, myth and folklore abound with black-feathered tricksters and shape-shifters. Dominic weaves their stories along a northern borderland between fields and sea, where neither crows nor people are quite what they seem.

Originally commissioned by Cambridge Storytelling Festival. Dominic was recently invited to perform Crow at London's Barbican

60 minutes. Adults and children age 12+

"These were dark tales, as befitted the title, with transfiguration, abandonment and murder – and not just as a collective noun. There was lyrical language and sound use of repeated phrases and themes; time and again we were confronted with the silhouette of the crow “black against the sun, the light trickling down its head and the sweep of its shoulder to the gun-metal blue of its back; slippery with light, like mercury-washed slivers of metal.”.....
There was expressive delivery, dramatic gesture and good illustrative mime......
But above all was the quality of story-telling – exalting in the sheer delight of invention but veined with shimmers of plausibility; in the strong sense of place and teasing hints of autobiographical detail. The stories were interwoven and recursive with themes and motifs twisted back and forth through the cloth. Norman Hadley (review of Lancaster Performance)
Kelly, who is from Cumbria, drew his inspiration from folktale, myth and folklore, but also from the life of his grandfather, a trickster figure in his own life; he has woven that family story with legends from a northern borderland between fields and sea, where neither crows nor people are quite what they seem.
If you have never heard a storyteller before, there is a revelation in store for you - and if you are a regular listener, you will know what a treat awaits and will have already booked your tickets, I'm sure. Erica Wagner (The Times)