Xanthe Gresham

REPERTOIRE:
The following listings represent major pieces within Xanthe’s current performance repertoire for adults. Xanthe 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. Xanthe Gresham’s repertoire is ever expanding; she is available for commissions and can develop material for specific projects as required.

Inanna. Dr Athena Parthenon presents a ‘Self-help guide to the Goddess from Paleolithic to Pissolithic' with the aid of Inanna and the Storm Sisters of ancient Sumaria. Using magical symbols and images dating from 2000BC, she unlocks the incandescent power of the Goddess in her rawest, rudest form.
Aphrodite and the Real Red Shoes. Aphrodite is running towards you crushing aromatic flowers with her naked feet. Is your red heart strong enough, your black heart deep enough to share her starry secrets? Ransacking literature and mythology from the Stone Age to Hans Christian Anderson, from Ancient Greece to Soho, Aphrodite is summoned; six foot, perfumed with ambrosial oil, a perfect snake tattooed between her shoulder blades; her gift - The Real Red Shoes.
Isis is You Sis . If you've ever done online dating, set fire to the curtains burning relics of a recent love or generally lost your golden lotus then Isis Is You Sis. Combining the comic moments of breaking up and the single slog with a pure rendition of Isis and Osiris, the Egyptian tale of love versus murder, rape and betrayal, Isis Is-You-Sis will cause such a sunrise in your soul you'll just want to get out there, throw your arms towards the dawn and Create Life, Love Life, Desire Life. How can you miss it?
Hecate Tango. How do you cure an addiction to sex? How do you crack your soul's pin code? Hecate has the answers. She was chucked off Mount Olympus for refusing to hail Zeus as the one and only. Now she sits in outer space doing cosmic sudoku on our behalf. Combining performance storytelling, poetry and mythology, the energy of the great goddess of blackness and beginnings is bought back onto the dance floor.

Persian Magic, stories from the Iranian Epic, The Shahnameh.
A Key to Eyelids, a flight of fancy weaving together stories based around the works of Marc Chagall.
Fighting the Waves, a passionate and lyrical version of the Irish Epic of Cuchulain.
The Baseless Bag, a witty and wonderful moveable feast of show. The Audience and The Bag choose the stories.
All our Grandmothers, a wild take on the Storyteller’s own heredity, borrowing a little here and there from the Arabian Nights and Forgotten Folktales.

‘She held the audience in the palm of her hand.’
Gulf News, Waiheke Island, New Zealand 2005

‘With a few props, exquisite timing, a few rhythmic repetitions and some participation, the duo bought to life stories from various cultures to beautiful effect.’
The Irish Times

‘I challenge anyone not to marvel at the imagination and dexterity of this work of art while shuddering at the truths of humanity and war as the epic unfolds.’
The British Museum (on Cuchulain)

‘A perfect retelling of the Ulster Cycle for the twentieth century – truly stunning and spellbinding.’
Ulster Museum 2005 (for Fighting the Waves)

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