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Catspaw Authentic Entertainment - special entertainment for special events. Check out our workshops - especially the range of story workshops. Or make your party an event to go down in history with one of our shows from the Dark Ages, Medieval, Viking, Elizabethan periods. Our wedding listings offer something a little different for stag and hen and wedding entertainments.

We hope you enjoy browsing these pictures from a few events The Travelling Talesman has played. They should give some impression of the wide variety of settings in which story telling can flourish...

The Travelling Talesman

plays Wallingford BunkFest August 2004 (with Margie Barber, Richard Chaff and Fionagall )

The audience gathers and The Travelling Talesman and 3 other storytellers entertained them over the accidental background of music from the dancers outside (belly, morris and Welsh).

The Travelling Talesman's stories this time included Queen Matilda's Escape - a local historical tale of wits and daring. Cautionary arable adventure in The Field of Genies, Legends of Evil II by Rudyard Kipling and The Hedgehog and the Devil a popular story which most often finds itself coming out on the Longshanks and Talesman walks.

The Travelling Talesman playing a Berkshire Scout camp... first a Norse Classic: The Theft of Thor's Hammer in the barn in the early evening

Later the same evening around the camp fire ~ epic adventure, excitement and archery by fire and moonlight With the story of Adam Bell, William of Cloudsley, and Clym of the Clough.