CHANGELINGS by Adderstone (storytelling performance with BSL interpretation)

CHANGELINGS is a storytelling performance (threaded with music) by Adderstone (Cath Heinemeyer and Gemma McDermott) which has been performed at venues across the UK during 2023-26. It forms part of Heinemeyer's practice research into the role of storytelling in crystallising community responses to the climate crisis and intersecting crises. Up on a high windy mountainside sits a cailleach, a hag whose days as a powerful goddess are long behind her (if they were ever quite as impressive as she remembers).The world is changing. She who once held such sway over the weather has been usurped by humans. And a retired climate goddess needs a hobby - so why not take up kidnapping? But the only ones she seems to be able to reach are the different ones, the ones who find it hard to ignore her nighttime calls. The changelings.Every family has a sensitive one. What do they know that the rest of us don’t? What journey do we need to make to hear what they are saying?CHANGELINGS braids storytelling with acappella singing, spoken word with humour, Celtic myth with personal experience.Copyright Notice: This is previously published film and may be subject to copyright with terms of use. For use of this material please check and seek permissions from the external source listed.