A festival of fairytales for grown-ups.

The Crick Crack Club has joined forces with storytelling clubs – Tailspin, Scandalmongers, Infectious Theatre & Torriano Storynight; with Art Macabre, and with individual artists, performers, film-makers, musicians and some fabulous helper-outers to create and curate a 4-night festival of fairytales for grown-ups in the atmospheric and magical Bargehouse – a raw 4-storey un-modernised Victorian warehouse on the banks of the River Thames, beneath the iconic OXO Tower.

This mythological take-over of the Bargehouse combines performance storytelling, film, art, drawing salons, hot chocolate and more. Here Baba Yaga, cross-dressing heros, confused lovers and Greek Goddesses collide in full-blooded style. Expect unashamed magic, rich metaphor and genteel chaos in this wintery treasure house of myth, epic and rumour.

WEDNESDAY 14th DECEMBER

7pm – 8pm The Soldier & Death, by Ben Haggarty

You can’t beat the devil at cards…unless the pack is rigged. Comedic, past paced and full blooded – this is a story that’ll take you as high you can can go, and as low as you can go…

9 – 10pm Hecate Tango, by Xanthe Gresham

How do you cure an addiction to sex? How do you crack your soul’s pin code? Hecate the great goddess of blackness and beginnings is brought back onto the dance floor…  

THURSDAY 15th DECEMBER

7pm – 8pm The Hour of the Wolf, by Clare Muirrean Murphy

The hour of the wolf is the time of half-light between night and day when wolves hunt and good girls stay at home…

9pm – 10.15pm Gawain, by Sarah Rundle

When an unjolly green giant pitches up in your castle wielding an axe, it’s wise to avoid any rash decision making. A classic tale offset with intelligent irreverence…

  FRIDAY 16th DECEMBER

7pm – 8pm The Gift, by Dominic Kelly

On an impulse, a gift is thrown away – what will it cost to get it back? Young men face impossible tasks, young girls may lose their lives, and you can find the strangest things inside the ear of a horse…

9pm – 10pm Baba Yaga & The Virgin by Xanthe Gresham

Two unlikely travelling companions – Baba Yaga & The Virgin of Guadalupe – take a road trip through Mexico, aiming for that 360 degree hilltop epiphany, where you, me and the moment collide…

SATURDAY 17th DECEMBER

3pm – 4pm Moria Morevna or How Prince Ivan found a Horse, by Ben Haggarty

When Ivan meets Maria Morevan warrior princess, he has a lot of catching up to do – but inadvertently releasing Maria’s arch enemy isn’t a particularly good start…and then there’s the minor detail of Baba Yaga to contend with…

7pm – 8pm The White Bear King, by Sally Pomme Clayton

A princess marries a bear, who comes to her bed each night as a man. Step into a snow swathed fairytale forest…

9pm – 10pm The Girl who Became a Boy, by Jo Blake & The Glowglobes

In a post apocalypse world of futuristic imaginings and unlikely transformations, a girl, as beautiful as she is courageous, hacks off her hair and joins the fighters on the frontier…