"sex, love and heads will roll" - traditional slam

[Norah Dooley]

 

Co-Hosts: Tony Toledo, loose cannon and emcee extraordinaire and the lovely Doria Hughes, storyteller fabulosa (left). 

FEATURE: Norah Dooley will tell stories from Boccaccio's 14th century collection of tales, The Decameron. Norah has chosen tales that range from naughty to lusty, and include romantic tales that come from ancient story traditions of India and the bards of the Holy Roman Empire.

Susan Miron will accompany on the harp drawing on various ancient folk melodies and dances from Southern Italy. The music comes from authentic folk songs of Campagnia, Calabria, Puglia & Napoli as transcribed by John LaBarbera, mandolinist.

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of the Decameron. Boccaccio is particularly noted for his natural and witty  dialogue and his sympathetic female characters.

Additional prizes include a $25 dollar gift certificate from Brookline BookSmith,  passes to story slams + mugs and T-shirts maybe added.

Wine and beer are available. Complimentary chocolates on Valentines Day. Tickets will be $10 online and $12 at the door

http://folk-fairytaleslam.eventbrite.com

Puppet Showplace Theatre is an award-winning non-profit performing arts organization   www.puppetshowplace.org/  32 Station Street  Brookline, MA 02445

GUIDELINES for TELLERS

We will pick 5 tellers for each night and leave two slots for sign-up and random choice from “the hat”.  

Pre-selected tellers get in free and must arrive by 6:30pm to claim slot

This program challenges tellers of traditional stories with the following guidelines:

- tell a story no longer than a 7:59 minutes

- the story must be fiction and

- from any folk or world tradition

- the story may NOT be a literary work,

- must be the teller’s own version, in their own words, of a folk tale [random examples: Rumplestiltskin, Cinderella, Foolish Hans, Anansi tales, Giufa, etc.] and

- all  story genres are permitted:   (parable, myth, legend, fable, tall tale etc.)

- tellers may use poetry, props, costumes, music BUT no notes

We have secured the prizes and the audience will choose winners

 

Want to make sure you have a spot at the slam?  Start by recording your story here

and if selected you also will have

free admission

http://massmouth.blogspot.com/p/record-your-story-here.html

 

1st and 2nd place winners will advance to the finals date and venue TBA • Grand Prize TBA

winners may perform again if there is room but cannot win twice.

Click on links in red below to listen at a new page. These were for "feast and famine"

Example one: Stone Soup ( note, this story would NOT be eligible because it is read  & I am not the author of this version ) it is on theme and a folk tale.

Example two: Old Horse and the Bell of Justice ( this is my version of this very old Italian folktale so this would be eligible because it is on theme and a folk tale.)