The Travelling Talesman Site Specific Events

Different sites require different approaches: Some are best served with re-tellings of stories and/or history peculiar to the site; others are more suited to Bespoke Site Specific Story Walks and some only need a little generic historical interpretation and relevant themed stories. Whatever your site or event offers, The Travelling Talesman will endeavour to provide an engaging and appropriately costumed entertainment for your visitors or guests.
Site specific stories and history Whether it is ghosts, witches, heroic knights or humble workers that inhabited your site, from the Stone Age to the present day, for a fully developed show with props and sketches, book Longshanks & Talesman In which The Travelling Talesman teams up with Archaeologist and historian Nic "Longshanks" Hanks (English Heritage) to deliver the fact and the fantasy of your ancient place, always wrapped up with their famous "Three Minute History" which covers 300,000 years in just 3 minutes! Tell me more		The Feudal System
Bespoke Site Specific Story Walks Using imagination, experience and a compendious knowledge of folktales and legends The Talesman will devise a unique story inspired by the features of your site. Maybe it starts with a standard storytelling scenario, the audience sitting in circle, the storyteller introducing the characters to the gentle plink of a lyre. Everyone settles down, they think they know what's coming. When the Talesman suddenly says "He set off with a skip in his step" whilst moving off down the track beating a drum, the response is "Oh! This is something new!" The audience journey with the hero or heroine, becoming deeply involved in the story and seeing the location through new eyes. Story Walks can be tailored for adults or children and careful planning means that no one stretch of walking, nor any one bit of standing still listening, is too long. Example: Billy and the Witch Of Nidd		The Troll on the bridge
Relevant themed stories Be it a mill or a forge, a hillfort or a manor house there will be stories to fit the location concerning millers or blacksmiths, celtic warriors or medieval lords. Stories can be taken from a single time period or some other theme of your choice.

Historical interpretation The Talesman has a broad knowledge of most historical periods from the Neolithic through the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution and the Victorians. He was part of the Sandford Award winning HI team at the Chiltern Open Air Museum and directed the two hour documentary Beneath Basingstoke for the BAHS. Specialist areas include the Iron Age, Vikings and Medieval.	Iron Age Roundhouse COAM