The Storyteller as Performer: in conversation with Ben Haggarty
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The Storyteller as Performer: in conversation with Ben Haggarty
5.30–7.30 pm Wednesday 18 January
The Pavilion, Masters Field, Balliol College
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Ben Haggarty
Ben Haggarty is one of the UK’s foremost performance storytellers. For over 40 years he has pioneered the retelling of traditional oral narratives (international folk tales, fairytales, epics and myths) in performance on contemporary stages – finding new contexts and purposes for their telling, researching global performative oral traditions and advocating a reappraisal of the status of orality. He is Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College.
Date:
12 January 2023, 11:00 (Thursday, 0th week, Hilary 2023)
Venue:
Please note: this event is taking place in The Pavilion on the Master's Field, Balliol College – not the Broad St site.
Speaker:
Benjamin Haggarty (Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts, Merton College)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Host:
Nicholas Duddy (University of Oxford)
Part of:
TORCH Reimagining Performance Network
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Nicholas Duddy
