Thursday, October 22, 7:30PM
Nevada Theatre, Nevada City, CA
$35 premium reserved seating
$25 general admission
Three drops of magic. One mother’s love. Everything at stake.
A musical marionette fairy tale by Dalrymple MacAlpin
You are the most famous witch in the land but you just gave birth to a deformed monstrosity. The only thing you can do for your child now is brew a cauldron of inspiration…
One of the most beloved Welsh myths is brought to life on the stage with music, marionettes, theatrical storytelling, shadow puppets and a bubbling cauldron of inspired stew. The Cauldron Crone is an original re-telling and re-shaping of a story revolving around themes of inspiration, broken families, sacrifice and the often-overlooked power of the crone.
Experience the shape-shifting magic of Cerridwen, The Cauldron Crone, as she painstakingly brews a potion containing the three blessed drops of inspiration for her disfigured child Fran, the ugliest boy in the land.
A year and a day later when the three drops are ready, nothing goes as planned. In order to save her son from a life of ridicule and shame Cerridwen must make the ultimate sacrifice.
From initiation to transformation, The Cauldron Crone is spun in the spirit of the old Bardic traditions, an ancient form of theatre tinged with both magic and meaning.
“The Cauldron Crone offers a truly grounded, genuine magic; creating a sense of wonder & awe.” – Athena Aronow, Arts & Education Manager, Center For The Arts
“Equal parts fantasy and storytelling, plus consistent gorgeous imagery…I am always entertained.” – Aubrey Puetz, Executive Director North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center
“The enduring language of fairy-tales, folklore and myth feels increasingly relevant today. In an age of isolation, over-stimulation and distraction, these stories possess the unique power to reconnect us to who we are and why we are.
I believe everyone carries stories within themselves, and that these stories exist for a reason, they carry meaning, memory, healing, and transformation. Again and again, stories remind us that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things.
We daydream and intentionally create fantasy for a reason: to envision possibilities and alternatives that lie beyond the borders of what is known, and toward the tantalizing potential of the unknown. To do this we must dismantle the walls we build around our own ideas and push ourselves forward into the intuitive world of our boundless imagination.
I have found no better way to share these ideas than through song, music, theatre, storytelling, and the expressive language of puppetry. Puppetry, by its nature, opens the door to the fantastic and speaks directly to our instinctive need to believe in magic.
After seeing first-hand how a grown adult and a seven-year-old child can sit in the same dark room, experience the same show and each be inspired and moved for entirely different reasons, I began to devote my life to the theatre. Conjuring a world the only way I know how, out of song, shadow and string.” ~DM