{"id":315,"date":"2018-10-14T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T10:04:14","slug":"love-in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Love in the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Dust off\u00a0 your heart, dance with the devil.<\/strong><\/em><br><em><strong>Kiss in the dark, a romantic revel.<\/strong><\/em><br><em><strong>Under the stars, abandon your woes.<\/strong><\/em><br><em><strong>Venus in furs, love in the shadows!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love in the Shadows is sheer, magical delight and shadowy enchantment, a combination of\u00a0 stories and shadows. Dark and gothic fairytales for grown-ups accompanied by Pomme&#8217;s little shadow puppet theatre. Stories of devil lovers, lonely lasses, passionate Goddesses, lusty lads are peppered with delicate images from a teeny, tiny shadow theatre.\u00a0These are stories of having and not having, of longing and loosing, of making mistakes, and living to tell the tale. A night for all hot hearts &#8211; get lost in the dark, meet your shadow, and be entranced! This performance is suited to smaller spaces which can be made dark! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/love-in-shadows-hand.jpg\" alt=\"sally pomme clayton storytelling for adults\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/love-in-shadows-hand.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/love-in-shadows-hand-420x351.jpg 420w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/love-in-shadows-hand-360x300.jpg 360w, https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/love-in-shadows-hand-479x400.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Sally Pomme Clayton\u2019s \u2018Love in the Shadows\u2019 is a series of gothic fairy tales about love and desire. Nestled in a tiny little room, we shared cushions, blankets, Limoncello and pins and needles as her beautiful \u2018shadow stories\u2019 came alive before our eyes in her tiny little shadow theatre. Clayton has a delicate way of holding an audience so gently, that you are pulled along before you know it, and the piece is exceptionally beautiful. You quickly fall under her spell, and sort of wish she would never stop talking!&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong> Female Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Love-in-lilly.jpg\" alt=\"sally pomme clayton shadow theatre stories for adults\" class=\"wp-image-395\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>&#8220;It takes an incisive brain, a poet\u2019s ear and 20 years of experience to get the kind of freedom with which Sally Pomme deconstructs and re-creates stories&#8230;telling with her own particular vigor, smiling, pacing across the room&#8230;we are totally complicit, instantly confident that we are in the hands of a mistress storyteller&#8230;She moves between characterization and narration as brightly as a running stream.&#8221; <\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Storyteller, Xanthe Gresham-Knight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust off\u00a0 your heart, dance with the devil.Kiss in the dark, a romantic revel.Under the stars, abandon your woes.Venus in furs, love in the shadows! Love in the Shadows is sheer, magical delight and shadowy enchantment, a combination of\u00a0 stories and shadows. Dark and gothic fairytales for grown-ups accompanied by Pomme&#8217;s little shadow puppet theatre. Stories of devil lovers, lonely lasses, passionate Goddesses, lusty lads are peppered with delicate images from a teeny, tiny shadow theatre.\u00a0These are stories of having and not having, of longing and loosing, of making mistakes, and living to tell the tale. A night for all hot hearts &#8211; get lost in the dark, meet your shadow, and be entranced! This performance is suited to smaller spaces which can be made dark! &#8220;Sally Pomme Clayton\u2019s \u2018Love in the Shadows\u2019 is a series of gothic fairy tales about love and desire. Nestled in a tiny little room, we shared cushions, blankets, Limoncello and pins and needles as her beautiful \u2018shadow stories\u2019 came alive before our eyes in her tiny little shadow theatre. Clayton has a delicate way of holding an audience so gently, that you are pulled along before you know it, and the piece is exceptionally beautiful. You quickly fall under her spell, and sort of wish she would never stop talking!&#8221;&nbsp; Female Arts. &#8220;It takes an incisive brain, a poet\u2019s ear and 20 years of experience to get the kind of freedom with which Sally Pomme deconstructs and re-creates stories&#8230;telling with her own particular vigor, smiling, pacing across the room&#8230;we are totally complicit, instantly confident that we are in the hands of a mistress storyteller&#8230;She moves between characterization and narration as brightly as a running stream.&#8221; &nbsp;Storyteller, Xanthe Gresham-Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[152,32,151,34],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances","tag-gothic-fairytales","tag-performance-storytelling-for-adults","tag-shadow-theatre","tag-storytelling-for-adults-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}