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Storytelling Collective

“In all my life I've never heard anything like your storytelling before.”

The Ragged Storytelling Collective are an evolving new performance group that blend experimental oral storytelling with folk-music, ritual, puppetry and devised physical theatre, elevated with simple but effective set designs and a strong DIY ethos.

Established in 2020, our debut show Binderella received standing ovations and enthusiastic reviews, being described as “spellbinding, stunning and inspirational" and rated at 9.6/10 in audience feedback. Becoming known for telling “tales both ancient, contemporary, fantastical and grounded - with an epic, visual, cinematic quality” with “twisting tunes and soulful vocals, coiling like smoke, weaving through the words like an incantation”, the Collective continually strive to push boundaries of what oral storytelling performance can be.

Cân y Dŵr is the Collective's second touring show, and like Binderella, Cân y Dŵr continues to explore the Collective's signature style – blending traditional mythology with modern themes to create performances that feel both ancient and contemporary in the same breath.

With a changeable line-up of storytellers, musicians, artists and friends that come together to create compelling performances, each appearance is a unique alchemy of skill, talent and magic. The Collective is made of artists who are queer, gender non-conforming, neurodivergent, disabled and/or marginalised.

Click the images below for information about our shows

Binderella poster with the collective in monochrome looking at camera with a background of patchwork rags mixed with fire and black illustraion, with arts council wales funding logos

Cân y Dŵr poster with three river puppets facing camera on a background of the sea, with arts council wales funding logos at the bottom and a tagline which reads "4.5 billion years of water (abridged) told in story, song and puppetry