Theatre

Murray Lachlan Young's Modern Cautionary Tales for Children in St Ives (preview)

02nd September 2008

Rock'n'roll poet Murray Lachlan Young brings his innovative show for kids, Modern Cautionary Tales for Children, to the St Ives September Festival on Saturday, September 13.

Modern Cautionary Tales for Children is an innovative and groundbreaking poetry show written and performed by one of the UK's foremost performance poets and a regular fixture on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live.

A mixture of poetry, stand-up comedy, storytelling and a touch of panto make for a hilarious and positive route to showing children that poetry can be fun, thought-provoking and occasionally quite cool.

Modern Cautionary Tales for Children gets children dancing on stage, completing simple fun poems, being ponies and getting seriously involved in live, interactive poetry – this is a raucous, silly, scary, funny, poignant and enlightening hour of merriment and mayhem.

The Scotsman said: "Who'd have thought it? The big bad boy of performance poetry turns out to be one of the greatest children's entertainers I have ever seen. There is not a patronising nanosecond in this show – children and 'ex-children' are treated exactly alike, so children and 'ex-children' enjoy it alike. Go on, practise your animal noises and give yourself some fun!"

The Cornishman said: "Hilarious. Imagine a ranting Tom Baker talking about toilet training. Your children will love this show!"

Murray Lachlan Young, who now resides in Penzance, shot to fame in the late '90s after signing a million pound record deal with EMI records and is well-known for his adult poems.

Modern Cautionary Tales for Children is his most recent work and the first time he has created a poetry cycle specifically for children. He has worked as a professional writer performer for 15 years and had his own shows on MTV and BBC2.

He is published in the UK, Italy and the USA and has released CDs through EMI and Almo Sounds. He has also toured in the UK.

Tickets are £7 from the box office on 01736 797007 for the show at St Ives Theatre.

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