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Comb

(Charlotte Mooney)
Scottish Storytelling Centre (George Mackay Brown Library)
20–24 Aug 17.30
Theatre

'I saw a banshee once... just outside of Galway...' When Charlotte Mooney was a child her granddad told her a fragment of a story she could not forget. Decades later a chance discovery set her off on a quest to find the rest of the tale. Comb is a tangled ride into Celtic, Slavic and Siberian mythology and the perils of obsessive research. Featuring sentient puddles, bishops with holy combs, magical flies and a healthy respect for nits, it is a playful, heart-rending and furious lament for the stories and people we have lost.