Goddesses and Heroines

           Photo: Alnwick Storytelling Festival

This show is based on Xanthe’s book Goddesses and Heroines published by Thames and Hudson. Audience members choose a story from the symbols on Xanthe’s dress.

Expect vital rhythms, captivating songs, and empowering, musical stories. Who knows which Goddesses will be chosen? The wave-coasting Aphrodite? Hecate, the maths whizz? Starry Inanna?

Gresham is an excellent storyteller….multi-talented, using a variety of voices and mannerisms to create different characters
….. She also incorporates music into her storytelling to great effect, using both her voice and an accordion.
What makes Gresham unique…is her effortless way of connecting to her audience and making them part of the storytelling. She casts the crowd in turn as her props, accomplices, chorus, and even co-stars. Nora Perone – Everything Theatre

Here’s the story of bone-cracking Tzitzimitl…