Feeding the Demons- A Night of Storytelling with the O-Aissieux

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Sunday January 13, 2008 14:40

by C Murray

Adventures and Misadventures-Innovative Story-telling a La Carte.

Dark tales of babies for breakfast and drugged up doctors on muscle -relaxants racing
in dark nights of Belfast operating theatres (in the nineties) provided an evening of food
for those inclined to Carteresque tales and shape-shifters of the Danish variety.

This evening of story-telling of shamanism and shrimps was brought by the good offices
of Coilin- the Oh-Aissieux, of the Narratvie Arts Club:-http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84746.
Backround to the Narrative Arts Club:- http://tinyurl.com/2barxo

Baskin's -Birdman

The evening was structured around the 'menu' which was presented to the audience
members on arrival, and I had assumed that the invitation to 'peruse' the menu in the
Events Guide was something to do with food. (It depends how you like your dismembered
babies and inuit shamans...)

The Programmes for the evening:-

Starters:-

'Around the World'
'Meet the Molbos'
'Mushroom soup'
'Sux Races'- (The aforementioned Doctors and nurses)
'The Shaman and the Bolsheviks'
'Sun and Moon'

Main Courses:-

'Mr Silver and Mrs Crozier'
'The Land of Rotten meat'
'Nalikateq'
'Trolls in Law'

Spicy Side Dishes:-

'Shrimp Husband'
'Fish Soup'
'Repo Republican'
'The Shaman's Shadow'
'Moon Woman'

Desserts:-

'Sinbad's First Voyage'
'Sinbad's Second Voyage'
'The Bell'
'The Shotgun'
'The Bumblebee'

All of the above came with little appetising appraisals , the audience gets to choose
from the menu, the Molbos were astoundingly popular and appeared in both Starters and
Dessert courses. They emanate from Mols and are a rustic people who have a unique
interpretation of life and wonderful problem-solving skills involving cow-pats and noses.
The next round of story-telling is on at Valentine's (for some a Lupercal) so I shan't spoil
them by elaborating too closely on the stories...

Mrs Crozier made a re-appearance, understandably , she is undead and seems to
haunt the Library extension of the Bar whenever newcomers and loyal audience
attend to listen and partake in the programme. The show is broken into two parts
with an exhoration by the host to 'meet someone you have not met before and tell
them a story' and some interesting tales did emerge from Venezula, Kerry, Sceilig
Michael and cross country to Derry and Northern Ireland.

There are upcoming workshops and two more evenings to be announced, its a good
way to feed the demons without getting all passive and watching some awful movie.
A final note, it really is best to mind you business if your daughter marries a shrimp
or a troll...(some lessons are hard-learned).

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Comments (4 of 4)

Pics from a Previous Evening

by Author

Sun Jan 13, 2008 17:25

There are rules and provisos with certain shape-shifting activities, which include never..
ever spying on the newly-weds...[Shrimp Husband, from the 'Spicy Side Dishes' menu
section of the A La Carte evening]

shh... Mind your business if yer daughter marries a shrimp

Thanks for the enthusiastic report!

by The Oh-Aissieux - NAC

Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:52

narrativearts at gmail dot com

086 060 38 18

These were the stories I actually told, on prompting by the audience:

First part:
Starters:
Meet the Molbos
The shaman and the Bolsheviks
Main Course:
Trolls-in-law
Spicy side dishes:
Shrimp husband
Fish soup
Dessert:
The bumblebee

Second part:
Starters:
Mushroom soup
Sux races
Main course:
Mr Silver and Miss Crozier
Dessert:
Sindbad's first and second voyages
(The way I told this merged the two voyages into one. I'd like to disentangle them and continue with the remaining voyages some other time.)

I was particularly pleased to be asked to resurrect Miss Crozier for the occasion. Some stories simply refuse to lie down and die!

Please do contact me if you are interested in attending a storytelling workshop and/or participating as a performer in the club.

Also, if anybody knows of a possible venue that has just as much inherited atmosphere but about twice as much seating space, I'd love to know about it.

Best,
Coilín.

Poetry Ireland Notice and Review.

Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:57

http://www.poetryireland.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=381

(its had a few hits)

http://www.poetryireland.ie
http://www.poetryireland.ie/forum/

Feedback

by Adam

Thu Jan 24, 2008 14:55

The stories were all very good.
I'd like to hear more stories about the Molbos but the fun is not knowing what a story will be like.
I found the back stories or history of how you came across stories to be very interesting.

I think the story telling could be twice a month or once a month and a once a month workshop.

The price was great value.

The venue was a nice size but limiting to the possible number of people that can attend, I have no recommendations though.

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Feeding the Demons- A Night of Storytelling with the O-Aissieux

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