Tales From The Black Meadow - Live at Folk Horror Revival: Winter Ghosts -Whitby

This is a recording of the Soulless Party with Chris Lambert at Whitby Ghosts in December.
It contains extracts from the soon to be released Black Meadow archive including some words from "A Voice from the Heather."
This was recorded at the Metropole in Whitby on Saturday 16th December.

Lost on the Black Meadow - An evening with Chris Lambert at the Whitby Bookshop - Coming Soon

Tales from the Black Meadow - The Play - A Look Back - Whitby

The idea of performing the play in Whitby occurred at the very start.
It sounded like a great idea.
Some were dubious...
After a while, once it was all set up and too late to pull out... I too was dubious!
However Kit Wright at Caedmon College was fantastic to work with and made it so much easier!

We left Theale (Berkshire) at 5.15am.
Some of the students slept on the coach.
They were very well behaved (I did make travel bingo for them)
We arrived at just after 12pm in Whitby so we did have time to do a speed run.

The performance was the premiere.
The students were splendid but we did have teething problems...
The little model train fell off the stage and the Black Meadow mist from the smoke machine did set of the alarms so we had to evacuate in the first ten minutes.
After that it went swimingly.
The feedback from the school was lovely.

Drama@CCW‏ @Dramathesps  Jul 6

@hambert hope you all get home safe. Black Meadow weather over the Moors today. Thank you for your hard work, what lovely students

Jo Parlby‏ @JoCrow70  Jul 6

Thank you Kit Wright @Dramathesps for inviting Eskdale to Tales of the Black Meadow. We all loved the production.

The audience were very kind too:

Well done! To you all. It was a fascinating, and very creepy, production... and it seemed entirely fitting that, afterwards, I walked up to the Abbey churchyard for the first time in decades and watched spectacular thunder and lightning rolling across the town!  - Bob Fischer - BBC Tees

I was lucky enough to be invited to the first performance of "Tales from the Black Meadow" yesterday. It was performed in Whitby only a few miles away from the Meadow itself. So it was nice to see it in its native setting . I am by no means a theatre critic. But, the performance was a tour de force directed by Chris Lambert and a company from Theale Green school. The work was superbly choreographed and the performance was quite spare making good use of wooden staves to create a bewildering number of sets. It did contain some superbly disturbing moments. I have to say that once the mist rose it set off the fire smoke detectors which interrupted the performance. The cast were professional enough to shake this off and carry on with the show. If anyone is planning to see the coming performances or is thinking about it I would highly recommend seeing it. Well done to everyone. - Peter Lagan -Leasungspel

What was particularly heartening was to see how the show inspired students from Caedmon College in their work.

Drama@CCW‏ @Dramathesps  Jul 12

Last week yr9 now 10 experimenting after watching Tales from the Black Meadow

BBC Tees interview about Tales from the Black Meadow - The Play

Bob Fischer interviewed Chris Lambert on 30th July 2017 about "Tales from the Black Meadow - the Play". As well as this he also played The Main Theme, extracts from the documentary "Curse of the Black Meadow" and a rehearsal and Song of the Horseboy by Kid Moxie.

Tales from the Black Meadow - The Play - Coming Very Soon

Tickets will shortly be on sale for Tales from the Black Meadow at South Street Arts Centre in Reading.

The premiere on Wednesday July 12th (following a free preview for students at Caedmon College, Whitby on July 6th) will be the first opportunity to see this adaptation of Chris Lambert's critically acclaimed book.

Watch this space for further details...

Black Meadow at Whitby Bookshop

Just a little picture of Black Meadow at Whitby Bookshop cuddled up next to that other famous Whitby resident...

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