Fantastic Feminist Folktales
A riveting six story ride, crowded with wild and winsome women
This performance is an eclectic mix of stories, both dark and dangerous, and delightful and inspiring; tales and truth from throughout the ages, inlaid completely with women’s power, passion and potential.
It is a bold, brave and compelling show from storyteller Kate Lawrence, in the imperfect art that is traditional oral storytelling. Kate brings her unique and artful eye, her lawyer’s logic and her deep feminist sensibility to these classic stories, creating modern meaning from these messages from history.
Kate Lawrence - Storyteller
Kate Lawrence is a creative, expressive and captivating storyteller of many years experience, with a wide repertoire of personal, historical and traditional stories. Her themes range across gender equity, nature, death, wholeness, trust, spirituality, connection & belonging, values, purpose, play and collaboration. She is a twice Moth Story Slam winner and a TEDx speaker.
NOTE: This show touches themes of death (Joan of Arc, Ruby and the Wedding), sexual assault (Red Riding Hood), sexual denigration of women (Joan of Arc), war and violence (Joan of Arc) and menstruation, (Princess Sophie), and so it is recommended that the minimum age is 14 with parental guidance, otherwise 16. (But really it is a powerful, moving and inspiring set of stories.)
“Kate Lawrence is a wonderful story teller...I saw this show and was thoroughly transported...The Joan of Arc story still looms large. This is very empowering stuff from a thoughtful, creative woman storyteller.”
“Kate Lawrence was a powerhouse at her performance of Fantastic Feminist Folktales at Preston Library last Thursday night. She captured the audience with her stories of women from legend and history, harnessing their intelligence, resourcefulness and endurance to triumph over adversity.”
“This was a brilliant evening of stories; intelligent, heartfelt and beautifully crafted historical and traditional tales with seamless twists and turns. May they be many more nights like this!”
“Kate’s evocative storytelling highlighted how the timeless and universal truths in myths and folk tales are still relevant today, by bringing to life the consequences of choice and action, and the joys, tribulations and power inherent in the feminine experience.”
