Cat Weatherill

REPERTOIRE:
The following listings represent major pieces within Cat’s current performance repertoire. Cat Weatherill also has a wide ranging repertoire for both children and adults, for performances and work in educational and community contexts and for site specific work. Cat's repertoire is ever expanding; she is available for commissions and can develop material for specific projects if required.

Solo performances:
Ghost, dark tales for dark nights
Mermaid, sea stories
Kissing the Wind, medieval love tales by Marie de France
Bawdy Stories, Boccaccio, Basile et al

Collaborations:
Queen of the Planets, a beguiling Irish tale, created with Daniel Morden, layers stories within stories ‘...until the listener is perfectly bewitched and yet never loses the thread’ (The Times).
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a playful family show featuring Rob Soldat as the eponymous villain.

PUBLICATIONS:
Cat Weatherill’s first children’s novel, Barkbelly, was published by Puffin in 2005 - ‘Glorious...a beautiful and touching story’ (The Observer). The sequel, Snowbone, will follow in 2006 with a third novel, based on the Pied Piper, due for 2007.

‘A magical performer’
The Times

‘Audiences are invariably spellbound by her intimate style.’
Paris, L’Express

‘Gripping yarns!’
The Stage

‘She has a theatrical background that lends a vividness to the fluid lines of her show
and vivacity to the delicate traditional songs she sings.’
The Big Issue

‘Sell out superstar!’
Peter Florence, Festival Director, The Guardian Hay Festival

‘Cat is one of our great storytellers, vivacious and inventive.’
Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate 2003 - 05

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