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Cat Weatherill
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- About Me:
- I'm a performance storyteller, living high in the hills on the borders of England and Wales.
My storytelling is all about extremes. The work varies wildly from one week to the next! I've been lucky enough to perform at some of the best festivals and clubs in Europe - Festival d'Automne in Paris, Graz Tales in Austria, Fabula in Stockholm, the main Edinburgh Festival, Beyond the Border here in the UK and the StoryBazaar in Copenhagen. I've played to big audiences too: 1500+. But I also spend a great deal of time taking my adult shows to village venues across the UK. Here there might be just 40 people in a tiny hall in the middle of nowhere, but I love the intimacy, the silent space and the generosity of the organisers. I did my 'Ghost' show in a village last week, and someone had spent hours cutting cats out of black paper to decorate the candles on the tables. After the show there was food for everyone: homemade beef stew, apple pie and cream. I love all that! Everything being done with such care and kindness. You simply don't get that with big theatre gigs.
I have a theatre background, and my performing style remains strongly physical. I'm probably best known for my dark, sexy, scary stories. I love ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. But I also tell exquisite medieval love tales. I'm hugely romantic and love the lais of Marie de France, three of which I tell in my show 'Kissing the Wind.'
Because I'm so well-known for my adult tales, people are sometimes surprised to hear I work with children, but I do - all the time! I'm a children's author too, though finding enough time to write can be a problem. I'm too busy dreaming and telling!
There's more about me on my website or at www.crickcrackclub.com
- Website:
- http://www.catweatherill.co.uk
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- At 5:21pm on September 3, 2009,
bloch muriel said… - hello beauty cat woman, as beautiful as always. I never forgot your Paris's stay...
Hope everything is fine,
love
muriel
- At 11:08am on February 4, 2009,
Debs Newbold said… - Cheers Cat. And thanks for inviting me! I hope those pipes of yours are still purring along nicely despite the weather and the workload. I'm looking forward to getting to know this site...see you there x
- At 10:44am on February 2, 2009,
Tim E said… - Hi Cat.
I don't have a strictly serious show, either in terms of romance or ghost stories (although ghost stories are an easier sell in the States, especially around Halloween)... so I didn't have a ready answer for your question.
One thing I'm always aware of in marketing my shows is how to draw people in. If I had a show where I knew it would be a tough sell (such as an epic romance), I'd either: narrowly focus my marketing only to reach a narrow sliver of audience, and let word-of-mouth build from there. I'm fortunate enough to live in a major metropolitan area that has a diversity of interests... OR... more likely (just because of who I am) I'd fiddle with my material so that there's either a comic, ironic, or contemporary angle to accompany it. Not necessarily to change/fracture/parody the original material. I think of it as providing a familiar platform from which to lead my audience to unfamiliar territory. (I have to do the same thing to get my children to try unfamiliar food... by serving it with (and/or comparing it to) something familiar.
Tim
- At 7:24am on February 2, 2009,
Deirdre Foster said… - Dear Cat,
Geneva has an airport and from Geneva you take a half an hour train to Lausanne
;)
See you
Deirdre
- At 8:23am on January 24, 2009,
Liv Brita Brodal said… - Thanks :) I'll use the opportunity to say what a lovely, lovely storyteller you are !!! I watched your performances at Fabula last september, and I really enjoyed it. It was very inspiring, and very moving.
Liv
- At 2:54pm on January 23, 2009,
Ilona Picha-Hoeberth said… - Hi Cat, I love this picture with the cat - it looks like on of my own cats named Machiavelli. Greetings Ilona
- At 8:23pm on January 9, 2009,
Kevin Cordi said… - Cat, I send you a greeting as well. Wales is a place of magic and I am glad I have the imagination so I can travel. wish you well, Kevin www.kevincordi.com
- At 3:51pm on December 21, 2008,
Deirdre Foster said…
- whoff whoff whoff
;)
- At 12:41am on December 16, 2008,
Tim E said…
- Hi Cat! Truth be told, "Grim and gruesome" is a better marketing slogan for me than "Stories I like with delightfully not-so-happy endings."
Among others, I tell "Salpedda and Her Brother," a fairy tale from Sicily, "The Water Snake" from Russia, and "The Ungrateful Son" from Grimm. Over here n the States, though, I have to give historical context to set the mood. (I like to endow the audience as living in the 14th century)
- At 7:51pm on November 24, 2008,
Kamini Ramachandran said… - Hi Cat!
Yup, the Festival is going strong and planning has already begun for next year. We did have a lot of fun when all of you were down!
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