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Storytellers Daisy Black and Jason Buck dig into their repertoire of shadows to bring you light and dark stories about redemption, grief and laugher in the face of Death’s grin. 

With one teller’s tales setting another teller thinking, this performance weaves a rich thread of tales that, like an individual’s life, will never be told in the same way again. The audience will gain an understanding of how people from the medieval period to today conceptualised death, wove stories around it and coped with grief and loss through humour, faith and storytelling.

Daisy Black is a storyteller, medievalist and English Literature lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Often moving, occasionally political, frequently feminist and regularly funny, Daisy’s stories underline the relevance and vibrancy of medieval narratives for today’s world. She has performed at folk, history and literature festivals, museums, heritage sites and performance venues across the UK, Europe and USA. 

Jason Buck draws on traditional favourites and introducing new ideas, and his stories are told in the oldest and best ways – as live performances, for modern audiences. He has performed, across the UK and Europe, and, online, to audiences from Hong Kong to California, blending traditional and contemporary motifs, vocal sound effects and pure, unadulterated fantasy. Jason has written and illustrated seven collections of his own stories, and won prizes in storytelling competitions.

This event is part the Myth, Magic and Markings series led by University of Wolverhampton.