Date/Time
Sunday 27 April 2025
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Categories Storytelling
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
We always have three prices – pay less and come to more things 🙂
Electrifying, soulful storytelling – for adults only!
Sly, subversive, spectacular storytelling by pioneer Sally Pomme Clayton evoking goddesses from across the globe. She mixes myths with memories, spells with songs, comedy with ceremony. These stories have not been tamed and are x-rated for adults only!
“Sally Pomme Clayton is one of the country’s most highly regarded storytellers…she awakens the imagination of the audience.” The Independent
Pomme brings the ancient myths to contemporary life with vivid spoken-word, strange musical sounds, gesture and ritual. Meet: Vesta the fiery virgin; Cybele the mother goddess who fathered a child; Ishtar the goddess who journeys to the Land of the Dead. Follow the goddess from creator to crone, virgin to warrior in myths about lust, destruction and rebirth. And the audience all receive a message from the goddess’s oracle to take home! The stories are drawn from Sally Pomme Clayton’s latest book ‘The Mighty Goddess – World Myths’ (The History Press 2023) – 52 goddess myths combining myth and art with fabulous papercuts by artist Sophie Herxheimer.
“Some people are born to entertain – Sally Pomme Clayton has that magic in plenty, she is a dream-weaver, a spell-binder.” The Londonist
‘The Mighty Goddess’ has appeared at: Watchet Literature Festival; Cheltenham Literature Festival; festivals in Sweden; Dresden; Leipzig; Capstone Theatre; The British Museum; Beyond the Border Storytelling Festival; East Anglian Storytelling Festival; Watkins Bookshop; Brockwell Barn; The Cavendish Arms; Chener Books; Rhythm Tree Festival.
The Mighty Goddess is for adults only and contains explicit material.
Sally Pomme Clayton (do call her Pomme!) is a pioneering storyteller and writer who has been creating performances, books and plays for 30 years, and has played a pivotal role in the storytelling revival. She creates magical work for theatres and museums, gardens and galleries, festivals and broadcast across the UK and beyond. Her ground-breaking shows focus on powerful female protagonists, such as ‘The Frog Princess Punked’ a hybrid performance with girl punk band and live projections.
The author of 16 books, her latest books are:
The Mighty Goddess (The History Press 2023) her first book for adults;
Violet and the Sea Giant (Autin Dance 2022);
The King with Dirty Feet (Otter-Barry Books 2021/2018) winner of The Oxford Book Award best picture book 2019;
The Phoenix of Persia (Tiny Owl Books 2019) nominated for the Greenaway Award 2020 and the UKLA award.
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.