Beyond nine forests, beyond the border between the wild and the civilised, lies a world where dream and reality merge, where babes suckle on mountain mists, dark blood is spilt upon the earth and spells are woven from the star-spun heavens.

This is a landscape of nature spirits, fierce warriors and strange magic through which the human soul journeys along the map of the heart in its search for self knowledge and the wisdom of the great bear.

Told through dark edged tales drawn from Bulgarian mythology, this is a unique theatrical experience combining storytelling, folklore, ritual, music and dance.

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Beyond Nine Forests is no longer in repertoire.

These ancient stories never before heard in Britain are echoes of a pagan past that fire the imagination and stir the soul. They are interwoven with the expressive power of specially created music as well as Bulgarian song, dance and folk music performed on authentic Bulgarian instruments.

Combining ritual and masked dance, compulsive uneven rhythms and the evocative Bulgarian style of singing, this is an exciting journey of initiation into a hidden culture and the mystery beyond.
 

A Spell In Time's members for this project were...
 

Moni Sheehan, storyteller and dancer. Her background includes contemporary and Bulgarian folk dance.
Ivor Davies, musician, plays a wide range of instruments including gudoulka, autoharp, bodhran, and deer's thigh-bone trumpet.
Oliver Baldwin, musician, trained in Bulgaria, plays tambura, guitar and percussion. He also plays with the Dunav Balkan Group and Balkan Arabic band Mukka .
Judy Greenwell, singer, trained in Bulgaria with singers of the world famous choir Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
Paraskeva Armstrong, translator, is a native Bulgarian and has worked with A Spell In Time on all its Bulgarian projects.

Beyond Nine Forests performances included: The Bulgarian Embassy, The Foreign Office,  Union Chapel (London), The Spitz (London),  Bloomin Arts (Oxford), the British Bulgarian Friendship Society.

A Spell In Time gratefully acknowledges the support of the Bulgarian Embassy (London) and the British Bulgarian Friendship Society for this project.

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