Rook Lane Blog

July 23, 2015

This year Openstorytellers have partnered with Mr Rook’s Speak Easy, to present the Bardic Chair of the Avalon Marshes competition.

April 30, 2015

A very special Frome Festival evening of contemporary folk and world music from this acclaimed group.

April 30, 2015

Singer-Songwriter Simon opens out Frome Festival programme with a set of original folk stories and songs.

March 24, 2015

Stories of love, luck and sharp objects told for adults, with the dark, the murky and the weird left lurking in the heart of the story.

March 24, 2015

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business in a story intertwined with vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

March 2, 2015

Interweaving storytelling, ritual and evocative music, A Spell In Time presents a deliciously dark jewel from the primal and poetic heart of Bulgarian myth and folklore.

March 2, 2015

Mr Rook’s presents double act storytelling with a hint of the surreal from Steve Killick and Francis Maxey.

January 9, 2015

The story of Ingmar Bergman’s parents, and a fasciating insight into how 19th century Sweden might have been.

January 9, 2015

Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king’s mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk in this sumptuous Italian drama.

January 9, 2015

The third title in the Satyajit Ray’s “Apu” Triolgy kicks off our new season of rare films.