Spoken word Archives - Cultivated

Lewis Buxton: Friend

James Goffin — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:22:28 +0000

Lewis Buxton wants a friend. More specifically, he wants a best friend – an unbreakable, unstoppable, transcendent connection with the one true companion.

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It’s the Economy, Stupid!

James Goffin — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:03:59 +0000

The political meets the personal in this engaging tale of how three decades of economic turmoil – and the theories that underpinned it – affected a Devon family.

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Dean Atta

James Goffin — Tue, 21 May 2024 23:42:41 +0000

Family and relationships are prime topics for Dean Atta, hosted by Toast poetry as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

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Modern Ritual

James Goffin — Sun, 19 May 2024 23:14:48 +0000

There’s something unnerving about heading incantations read aloud, even when you don’t believe in them – and the spoken rituals that started the Norfolk and Norwich Festival incarnation of Modern Rituals definitely had that edge.

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Dark Tales From The Guildhall

James Goffin — Wed, 15 May 2024 21:08:41 +0000

Today it serves as the headquarters of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival but Norwich’s Guildhall has a darker history, as this live podcast instalment revealed.

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Uncanny: I Know What I Saw

James Goffin — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:37:43 +0000

Master storyteller Danny Robins brings his supernatural podcast to the stage in this touring production focused on things that go bump in the night.

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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

James Goffin — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 21:48:19 +0000

“There isn’t a message, so don’t go looking for one” we are warned near the beginning of this stage adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story.

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Ghost Stories by Candlelight

James Goffin — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:53:00 +0000

The traditional meets the modern with this entrancing and disturbing series of spooky stories that span East Anglia.

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Me and Robin Hood

James Goffin — Tue, 14 May 2019 16:18:00 +0000

This performance is certainly in a fitting venue, with the Norfolk & Norwich Festival opening the door to the normally hidden former court room in the Shirehall, the city’s centre of justice for 166 years.

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Nuketown

James Goffin — Thu, 17 May 2018 16:36:57 +0000

Nuclear oblivion and Lego might not seem like natural companions but this unusual show, Nuketown, brings them crashing together.

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Manwatching

James Goffin — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:38:42 +0000

Are there any taboos left? Apparently so, if the reception for this monologue written by an anonymous woman but read aloud by a man is any indication.

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The Story Machine

James Goffin — Thu, 18 May 2017 19:57:39 +0000

Eleven stories scattered across the battered remains of an old factory are yours to explore in this creative and surprising event from the Writers’ Centre Norwich.

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Nobody Told Me

James Goffin — Tue, 17 May 2016 17:45:05 +0000

To those that allege that the Norfolk and Norwich Festival is all middle class indulgence, Hollie McNish is the answer.

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Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry

James Goffin — Fri, 08 May 2015 17:47:17 +0000

This early show of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival saw established writer Sarah Waters and relative newcomer Sarah Perry exploring the idea of the Gothic imagination.

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Tim Key

James Goffin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:40:08 +0000

Watching poet Tim Key’s latest show is like a waking dream – and not just because the stage set prominently features a double bed.

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Literary Death Match

James Goffin — Fri, 16 May 2014 14:07:14 +0000

Time was when all authors had to do was to turn up and read from
their works — now they must fight for survival.

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Molly Nayor and Ian Ross

James Goffin — Tue, 13 May 2014 14:48:40 +0000

Could you look your teenage self in the eye and say you stayed true to yourself?

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In Conversation with Will Self

James Goffin — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:23:35 +0000

People can impose themselves on a room in different ways: Will Self towers over an audience both with his giant height and his substantial intellect.

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I Wish I Was Lonely

James Goffin — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:07:42 +0000

Has the mobile phone robbed us of part of ourselves?

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The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

James Goffin — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:59:55 +0000

Sending someone to review Daniel Kitson is unfair.

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