Fairytales for Grown Ups: The Liberty Tree

Crick Crack Club presents:
The Liberty Tree - Robin Hood & Other English Radicals

Performance Storytelling by Hugh Lupton and Nick Hennessey

To live outside the law you must be honest.

For over 600 years stories of Robin Hood have held sway in the English imagination. With Little John, Will Scarlet, Much the Miller’s Son, Friar Tuck and the rest of the Merry Fellowship, Robin Hood inhabits a place in the leafy shadows of our minds - somewhere where it’s always high summer; where venison is always being roasted; where tyranny rides rough-shod over the green freedoms of England and where the wrongs and injustices of the world are mended by subversion and trickery.

Hugh Lupton and Nick Hennessey tell and sing their way deep into the secret, dappled heart of Sherwood, and the ancient tradition of English dissent.

'Sheer wizardry in the guise of utter simplicity’ Eastern Daily Press

Tickets: https://uk.patronbase.com/_Forge/Productions/HV/Performances
‘Compelling’ The Times

HUGH LUPTON is the poet of the storytelling world. His distinctive style focuses on richly crafted use of the English language. An award winning performer and writer, he has collaborated widely with singers and musicians, and in 2005, he won the Classical Association prize for ‘the most significant contribution to the public understanding of the classics’ with Daniel Morden. And behind all that beautiful English poetry lurks a wicked sense of humour.

NICK HENNESSEY
A singer, songwriter and performance storyteller, Nick is a dynamic and passionate performer whose love for the traditional culture of northern Europe forges together the note, the song and the spoken word into a unique, engaging style. An international performer, he has worked extensively at folk, storytelling and literature festivals across the UK and toured to Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Canada and Japan. In London Nick has performed at the South Bank, Barbican, the Albert Hall, and at the Soho Theatre. A distinctive singer and harpist, Nick has published three solo albums, the most recent of which, A Rare Hunger released on Harbourtown Records, received critical acclaim on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and numerous stations in the US.