This month sees the first Tellit! true-life storytelling festival.
Running from 16 to 22 October, the festival is composed of theatre, movement and comedy events and workshops employing various art-forms themed on "truth".
Tellit! takes place in venues across the capital and includes:
- Tellit Best, opening night event featuring storytellers from around the UK.
- 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle, an autobiographical show about living with a loved one and their mental illness.
- Holli Dillon: Appetite, an exploration of eating disorders and one clown’s search for love via bulimia.
- Charmaine Wombwell: Scarlett Shambles. It Used To Be Me, a mime/physical noir performance about the desperation and humour of heartbreak.
- Survivors Collective: Acting Out!, a devised performance on the subject of childhood sexual abuse (to be followed by a Q&A session).
- Paul Cree: Tales From A Bedsit, an autobiographical coming-of-age story of one man heading for a new life in the bright lights of Brighton.
- Ellen Waddell: It’s Better to Lie than to Tell the Truth and End Up Alone in a Ditch Crying, a play about the necessity of lying by former rock star Ellen Waddell.
- Toby Peach: Eulogy Talks, a show based on The Eulogy of Toby Peach about surviving Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
- Hikayetna: Storytelling from Syria, composed of music, poetry and storytelling, this show brings Syrians' experiences of the UK and refugee camps to the stage.
- Mark Grist: Rogue Teacher is the story of how an English teacher became a YouTube world-wide rap battle sensation.
- Stand Up & Slam, an autobiographical themed battle of poets v comedians.
- Small Space: Redux, a two–hander that explores the shared experience of intimacy.
- Tellit Poetically, an evening of autobiographical poetry.
- Chris Stokes: The Man Delusion and Ailon Freedman: The Man with Two Names, a double bill of true comedy storytelling.
- Dear Diary..., the reading of teenage diaries live on stage.
- The Quest: Tellit Festival's search for the best unknown true-life storytellers continues.
Shows are suitable for different ages.