Fireside Stories - Downpatrick | Newcastle | Newry

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A spectacular fire performance, Fireside Stories, by renowned circus company, Nikki & JD and Lost Dog, this March in Newry, Downpatrick and Newcastle.

Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has been collaborating with the award-winning circus company to create an outdoor show that combines acrobatics, dance, theatre and storytelling to re-enact the original poem, Beowulf. 

Renowned traditional seanchaí (storyteller) Steve Lally, will open the show with the retelling of some of our epic Irish myths and legends accompanied by a fire-eater and bodhrán player.  This will be followed by the main event, an exhilarating fire performance carefully choregraphed to take people on a dark and funny journey into the world of Beowulf. 

Fireside Stories will be hosted in three different outdoor locations across Mourne Mountains & Ring of Gullion, celebrating our landscapes, places and spaces.  The performers specialise in a unique blend of skills in circus and contemporary dance and the manipulation of fire to achieve strong storytelling that packs an emotional punch. 

So, put the dates in your diary, Fireside Stories will be in: 

Grove Car Park (opposite St Patrick Square), Downpatrick on Thursday 13 March

Newcastle Event Space (behind Newcastle Leisure Centre) on Friday 14 March

Albert Basin, Newry on Saturday 15 March. 

Each night will start at 7.30pm.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund, aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.