The Crick Crack Club: Baba Yaga
22 October 2025, 6:15pm - 7:15pm
FAIRYTALES FOR GROWN-UPS
Performance storytelling by Ben Haggarty & Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Baba Yaga: super-witch, ultimate hag, half-goddess, unpredictable, and more than a little cannibalistic. She lives in a hut perched at the top of a chicken’s foot, guarded by a fence of human bones.
Two extraordinary fairytale-tellers, Ben Haggarty and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, lure you into the enchanted realm of fairytales for grown-ups to encounter this dangerous deity of the dark woods...
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The Crick Crack Club is the UK’s leading performance storytelling producer, creating ‘exuberant, intelligent, wild, weird and wonderful events’. Tonight, their founder and storytelling pioneer Ben Haggarty is joined by one of the brightest new talents in British storytelling, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson. They bring us two stories, both of which feature the mysterious figure from Slavic folklore Baba Yaga: ‘Vasilisa & the Doll’ and ‘Brother & Sister’. Expect powerful drama and gripping intrigue, perfectly complementing tonight's performance of Baba Yaga: Songs & Dances of Death
'STORYTELLING GENIUS' ★★★★★ Fringe
'AN IMMENSE TALENT' ★★★★ Everything Theatre
'I WAS SPELLBOUND - I DON'T USE THE WORD LIGHTLY' The Times
'BLOODY BRILLIANT' Time Out
Age recommendation: adults 14+
Content: This performance contains descriptions of and references to death, sexual threat, incest and cannibalism, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
