National Storytellers Network – 7/22 Performances

 

The National Storytelling Network will deliver dynamic storytelling performers from across the country, sharing lives real and imagined – lyrical visions, dark journeys and laugh out-loud absurdity – that’s life! This all happens during the National Storytelling Conference.

Each of the three shows below will be presented at the same time on the night listed. Purchase a ticket for this night and you will tell an attendant at the venue which performance you’d like to see.

A Different Type of Magic: The Unfolding Story of Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini was known for his magic. However, his story is more compelling than his tricks. Experience his complicated story including the mystical, improbably, complicated, and inviting. A family program with some improvisation, based on research from Houdini’s life presented as a multi-narrative. By Kevin D. Cordi, OH

Website: www.storynet.org

Kafka: Metamorphosis

What if you awoke one morning to find that everything had changed, that in the night you had become something frightening, even disgusting? It happened to Gregor Samsa. Told by Margaret Meyers, MN.

Website: www.storynet.org

A Thousand Nights and One: Tales from the Arabian Nights

Two stories of trickerty, of loves lost and found, and lost again, with a little cross dressing thrown in. Told by Jane Ogburn Dorfman, MD.

Website: www.storynet.org

Show Information:

Venue

The Marriott on the Plaza

4445 Main St

Kansas City, MO 64111

Show Times

July 22 – Friday – 9:45 PM

Category

Spoken Word

Runtime

60 Minutes

Rating

R

Warning

Adult Language

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