A Love Like Salt

Synopsis

This Bristol-based company are at the forefront of storytelling in the UK. They fuse music, sound and spoken word to hypnotic effect. Passionate, charming and chilling, their shows breathe new life into ancient tales. Storyteller Daniel Morden, together with Sarah Moody (cello), Oliver Wilson-Dickson (violin) and Luke Carver Goss (accordion), perform the very first outing of one of the central stories in our culture: The Wife of Bath's Tale from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Our Review:

Barbara Maxwell - 13 October 2012

Those lucky enough – as I was – to see Daniel Morden at the Tobacco Factory Theatre last year performing Sleeping Beauty and Alcestis will know as soon as you see his name that you are in for a treat.

Well Daniel is back at the Factory telling more tales in his own inimitable way, accompanied by a trio of musicians called The Devil’s Violin Company. He weaves his way through the evening with his spell-binding voice holding the audience in the palm of his hand, while he takes us through the stories leading us on a breath-taking journey of suspense.

We all love to listen to stories whatever our age and when you get a master of the craft, as Daniel most certainly is, you are carried away on the wings of imagination to worlds where anything can happen.

We are drawn into the stories and transported to King Arthur’s Camelot, the Breton shores and the ancient Britain of King Lear. [Daniel Morden’s voice is hypnotic and powerful, and sense of timing excellen...

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