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Download the PDF Programme to Discover More ‘ Hun t‘ in g the GGian tsDaughter yr hen i a i th yn y tir the old language is in the land and the old songs live alawon hen yn byw advers e camber productions Myfi yw’r dechreuad Welcome I am the beginning Welcome to the Hunting the Giant’s Daughter South West England tour. We’re so excited about bringing this show to audiences who live in places close to where the action of the story takes place. We’re Myfi yw’r dechreuad also very excited about story walks, celebrating wonderful I am the beginning landscapes and the many different stories those landscapes hold. We’re grateful to everyone who has helped make this tour happen, Myfi yw’r gair see page 31 for a full list of thanks. I am the word If you’re here for a performance, do check out the dates for story walks overleaf. We’ll be walking and sharing stories and songs of Fy nghorff yw'r tir a choed a'r dail land and sea, informally. Similarly, if you’ve come for a walk today, my body is the land and the trees and the leaves why not come to hear a story which passes by the very landscape you’re walking through. Our tour is inspired by the story of Fy ngwallt yw'r gwair Culhwch and Olwen, one of the oldest surviving King Arthur legends in Welsh, full of questing, magic, love and fellowship and my hair is the grass we’re looking forward to sharing it with you. v Myfi a fydd yma ar ol y diwedd As a company, Adverse Camber is fascinated by how oral stories told over the centuries by hundreds of different people continue to I will be here after the end v speak to us today. We are also inspired by the contemporary artists Tyrd ar fy ol who work with these stories, bringing them to life in outstanding performances. If you’d like to find out more about our work, do get follow me in touch and follow our tour as we move across the region. O lanc diniwed Thanks for coming today and hope you enjoy it. oh innocent youth by Meic Stevens and Geraint Jarman, published Lupus Music ltd Naomi Wilds All artist and landscape photography Adverse Camber productions www.chriswebbphotography.com 2 3 Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Performances Story Walks When a young man falls in love with a woman no one can find, Five unique encounters between legend and landscape in a only Arthur’s chosen warriors can help. A quest across lands you’ll series of leisurely strolls through magnificent settings, sharing know and places you’ll discover – through music, words and song. music, stories and song. Sat 21 September , 7.30pm Fri 11 October , 7.30pm Sun 22 September , 11am Sun 13 October Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Perranporth Story Walk at 12noon and 2.30pm Perranporth Memorial Hall , Red Brick Building , Morland Join local historian Tom Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Wheal Leisure, Perranporth, Road, Glastonbury, Tremewan and the Hunting Story Walk at Dunster Castle Cornwall, TR6 0DP Somerset, BA6 9FT the Giant’s Daughter artists– Enjoy passion, drama and Tickets: £8/£6 Tickets, £8/£4; family, £20; Michael, Lynne and Stacey – humour as extracts of this from 01872 572121 and from 01458 899564 or for a leisurely stroll, with stops Arthurian legend are shared in www.carntocove.co.uk www.takeart.org for stories and songs. the magnificent grounds of Phone 01872 572121 Dunster Castle Fri 27 September , 7.15pm Sat 12 October , 7.30pm for more info or visit Tickets: £4 /£2, from Castle Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Hunting the Giant’s Daughter www.carntocove.co.uk entrances (NB usual admission Berrynarbour Manor Hall , Kilve Village Hall , Main Road, fee still apply). Birdswell Lane, Berrynarbor, Kilve, Somerset, TA5 1EA Sun 29 September, 2pm Devon, EX34 9SW Tickets: £8/£4; family, £20; Hunting the Giant’s Fri 25 October , 10.30am Tickets: £7.50/£5; from 01278 741317 or Daughter Story Walk at Fal River Story Boat Trip family of 4: £22.50 www.takeart.org Heddon’s Mouth Join Michael, Lynne and Stacey from www.beaford-arts.org.uk Experience the earliest on a boat trip along the Fal Sat 26 October , 7.30pm Arthurian legend retold amid River with stories and songs Sat 28 September , 7.15pm Hunting the Giant’s Daughter the rugged and dramatic inspired by the location shared Hunting the Giant’s Daughter Performance Centre , setting of the woodland gorge as the boat glides along. Lee Memorial Hall , Penryn Campus, Falmouth at Heddon’s Mouth. Meet: Prince of Wales Pier, Lee Bay, near Ilfracombe, University, TR10 9EZ Tickets: £7.50/£5; Falmouth at 10am for a North Devon, EX34 8LW Tickets: £12/£11 family of 4, £22.50; 10.30am departure. Tickets: £7.50/£5; from 01326 255885; from www.beaford-arts.org.uk To book: www.carntocove.co.uk family of 4, £22.50; www.theperformancecentre.org from www.beaford-arts.org.uk or [email protected] 4 5 More about The Story Hunting the Giant’s Daughter is based on Culhwch ac Olwen the oldest surviving Arthurian tale recorded in The Mabinogion , a collection of eleven Welsh tales formed from two medieval manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch (c1350) and the Red Book of Hergest (c1400). The story is He felt Lynne and Stacey could help give a voice to the women much older than the texts in which we now find it. It invites in this story, notably Olwen and the witch Y Widdon Orddu, us into a fantastic, primitive place where men and beasts are who live in what seems to be a very male landscape but turn equal and shape changing and magic are everywhere. The out to be the emotional and psychic centres around which the medieval author drew on oral as well as written traditions to men are in orbit. Festival Director David Ambrose fill the world of the story with colour, character and vigour. commissioned the piece for the 10th Anniversary of the Like much other Welsh oral material, the story has an Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival (see p29). uncannily close connection with the landscape; places from Pembrokeshire to Gloucester are identifiable, with names of Following its commission, the show toured Ireland, Wales and rivers, valleys and hills all bearing witness to the events. Holland with Creu Cymru and Iain Kempton before Adverse Camber began working with the artists in 2009. Thanks to Storyteller Michael Harvey began work with this story after funding from Arts Council England and then Arts Council reading John Layard’s book A Celtic Quest . He performed it Wales, the artists redeveloped the piece in collaboration with first as a solo story at the Scottish International Festival of Adverse Camber and a creative team (see pp27-28) and have Storytelling, then revisited it with Stacey Blythe and Lynne toured it together since then. As appropriate for a story told for Denman. Michael had worked with Stacey for many years, hundreds of years by perhaps thousands of individuals, this enjoying her combination of musical sensitivity and risk- version, too, is continually evolving. For more info, including taking, and he knew of Stacey’s work with singer Lynne an interview with Michael Harvey, visit Denman and Lynne’s deep knowledge of traditional song. www.adversecamber.org. 6 7 More abo ut The Music and Songs The music and songs in Hunting the Giant’s Daughter are The second half opens with ‘Aros Mae’ (Staying), to a tune drawn from both newly written and traditional material. Just as Lynne wrote, expressing the wistfulness of what has passed the story isn’t scripted, so the music is subject to change and the hopefulness for what is to come. ‘Adar Gwylltion’ (The through improvisation, as Lynne and Stacey respond to the Wild Birds) is a collection of lines from old Welsh verses, again shifts and dynamics in each telling of the story. sung to a tune Lynne wrote. The music becomes deeper and deeper as the story moves back through the ages, towards the The first song ‘Myfi yw-r dechreuad’ (I am the beginning) by oldest creatures. Meic Stevens makes the landscape human ‘my hair is the grass’, appropriate for a tale in which human and landscape During the battle sequences, music evokes the conflict, dark relate so closely. A traditional Welsh melody ‘Mae blodau ffein’ and brooding, as lines from Y Gododdin , the 6th Century epic (the beautiful garden) underscores the appearance of the poem, are interwoven with the reading out of names of the double headed thorn. The tune and lyrics to ‘Cariad Cyntaf’ dead. And we move to a slowed chord progression of (First Love) are also traditional and this tender song contrasts ‘Cherries’, a Ffynnon composition by Stacey, for the conclusion with the music which conveys Culhwch’s alpha male qualities, of the hunt for the Twrch Trwyth, the music showing respect for his beauty and sexuality as he ‘goes in style’ to Arthur’s court. the rite of passage we are witnessing. The final song is sung Towards the end of the first half the music shifts to incorporate a for the joyfulness of its melody. blues riff, conveying the invisible force of Olwen, a powerful voice even if she is not physically present when the giant is A live recording of Hunting the Giant’s Daughter which confronted, encouraging Culhwch on with the repeated words includes all the songs and music is available to buy at ‘He thinks it’s hard, but it’s easy for you’.
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