Rouge Galway @ 7.30pm | Tickets €15
Moth & Butterfly present a special night of storytelling and improvisation featuring top class performers, held in the atmospheric location of Rouge Restaurant in the heart of Galway City.
THE THEME FOR AUGUST 2024 is GRAPE and GRAIN. Performers on the night include the Moth & Butterfly Crew and special guests. Moth & Butterfly brings together the art forms of both Storytelling & Improvisation. There will be three types of Storytelling on the night:
'Moth' style stories are short, true, thematic, and feature the teller themselves as the central character. A homage to the wonderful 'Moth' storytelling, stories run about 8 or 9 mins but shorter is fine. Much more interesting than jokes or a yarn, the Moth & Butterfly crew always prefer a story of something that had an impact on you, something important to you. It can be funny of course but by no means has to be. Think of it as a story that changed you in some way, however small.
Improvised stories will be created fresh on the spot and no two are the same! The Moth and Butterfly Crew have different improvisational formats including: 'Stories From The Hat' (where the audience picks an object for the story) and 'Found In Translation' (where the tellers improvise and translate bilingually).
Free-fall stories are all other stories that still fit the theme, for example, a true story about someone else or a piece of fiction, be it a folk tale or a tall tale.
This is a night for oral storytelling, so no reading or notes allowed - just pure story! The night is for both tellers and listeners, for without good listeners, there would be no good stories!