susana tornero

Llegeix-me en Català
Léeme en Castellano

Life has many twists and turns: when I released The Night of Spider’s legs I was a storyteller based in Barcelona trying to reconnect with my Empordà roots through the poems of Carles Fages de Climent. Five years later, while rehearsing stories, poems and pieces of music which I was forced to keep in a box due to pandemics and family issues, I can see from my window the Verdera mountains, and if not for electricity, which has covered with light the whole mountain, maybe I might be able to locate the famous enchanted light mentioned at the book The Witches of Llers, which was the trigger of the whole performance, what led me, so to speak, to a «creative mode».

Now I am rather in «travel mode»: I am invited to take part in the Storytelling Week for Adult Audience in Valencia, organized by the Teatro Círculo from Benimaclet, and although it is true that at the beginning I felt a bit lazy about, as it probably is the most challenging of my performances, combining storytelling, poetry and music, I have to recognize that it fits perfectly to claim the art of storytelling for an adult audience. I remember how I specially chose the first verse from the poem Ballad of the enchanted light as a sort of declaration of intent, like a dissuasive measure for the audience with very little children, an audience which has taken up almost all storytelling programmes in libraries and cultural centres, leaving all young and adult audiences orphans of stories. I understood it as a way of claiming that many stories are for being told specifically when little children are already in bed: stories that would be a pity that would remain untold, as they need the ears of an adult, or at least, of a teenager. The strategy, of course, failed to reverse the situation, but it gave me the secret hope that after listening my stories, some youngsters from my region might look their landscape from different eyes.

If you want to listen these stories, and also others from other storytellers: Susagna Navó, Jose Luis Mellado and Eugenia Manzanera, I recommend you to go from the 8th to the 11th February to the Teatre Círculo from Benimaclet and let yourself be seduced by the power of storytelling.

Saturday 10th February at 20h
Teatre Círculo Benimaclet
C/ Prudenci Alcón i Mateu, 3, ground floor left
46020 València (Benimaclet District)
 
The Night of spider’s legs
Storytelling performance in Catalan with poems and music for adult audience
Tickets: 11 €

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