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A very welcome return visit here by Sarah Rundle, a superbly compelling and enormously entertaining storyteller.
"The Forest of Chance Encounters" is one long tale melded together from four stories in Italo Calvino?s collection of Italian Folktales: - four boys go into a wood, but not all of them come out again.

There are Lurve Stories and there are Anti-Lurve Stories. This show cunningly combines successful love, unsuccessful love, and Run-for-the-Hills-they?re-a-Psycho love. One lad chases a hare into the forest and stumbles upon a mysterious palace with a silent, occasionally naked, yet heavily veiled chatelaine; a cattleman turns out to have a secret past; a third man loses his wife whilst chasing his wedding ring. And the fourth story? Well, that?s a chance for the women to answer back.

Not all the stories have happy endings: prison, pistols, poison, and skulls will feature, there are five narrators, two of them dead, and not every handsome hero gets his just deserts.

And all to be encountered in our wonderful venue, along with those essentials of a great storytelling evening, a tremendous friendly atmosphere and superb cakes. (Not forgetting the famous FoF raffle.)

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Wellington Street,

Northampton,

Northamptonshire,

England,

NN1 3AS.