John Hegley’s
Biscuit of Destiny
Wed 27 Sept, 7:45pm
Leconfield Hall, £15
(£10 Under 18s)
A lovely hour of stories, music, poetry and silliness
Come and spend an hour with John Hegley and his unique storytelling, interspersed with spoken and sung poems, and plenty of audience participation. You don’t have to join in, but prepare to be judged on the quality of your actions if you do. Also be prepared to feed the Biscuit of Destiny to the Camel of Hope - a remarkable creation built by Hegley himself.
The biscuit in the title comes from Keats, who met a woman in Ireland being transported in some kind of kennel who the poet said seemed to be suffering from a "scarcity of biscuit".
The woman features in some of Hegley's poems, before a set of poems that are more autobiographical. He says the facts may not all be true facts, but they have a grain—or maybe a crumb—of truth.