Tales from the Scriptorium

Swanley Grange at National Trust Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Fountains Abbey, Fountains Lane, Ripon, United Kingdom

Brother Aidan returns to the Festival, bringing heritage crafts, history and storytelling to his new home at Fountains Abbey. Witness the process of creating an Anglo Saxon book whilst he weaves talks of his life as a monk. On hand - a huge range of replica artefacts.  Demonstration includes parchment and ink making, leatherwork, bookbinding …

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£15

Monoliths – Tuesday

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …

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£5

Tales from the Scriptorium

Swanley Grange at National Trust Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Fountains Abbey, Fountains Lane, Ripon, United Kingdom

Brother Aidan returns to the Festival, bringing heritage crafts, history and storytelling to his new home at Fountains Abbey. Witness the process of creating an Anglo Saxon book whilst he weaves talks of his life as a monk. On hand - a huge range of replica artefacts.  Demonstration includes parchment and ink making, leatherwork, bookbinding …

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£15

Monoliths – Wednesday

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …

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£5

Look After Your Knees

Ripon Arts Hub 49 Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

Look After Your Knees is a show about the pain and beauty of love, what it is to both connect and unravel. It’s a celebration of being human in all its banality, sprinkled with joy and ridiculousness. Performed by a clown delving into the space inside us left behind by loss. It’s a solo work …

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£10 – £12

Monoliths – Thursday

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …

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£5

Shakespeare’s Royals

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Join Barrie Rutter OBE, plus special guest, to celebrate the Bard’s Kings & Queens – their achievements, conquests and foibles – with anecdotes and memories from a career of playing and directing Shakespeare’s Royals, with Northern Broadsides and beyond, all over the world. "A formidable, inspiring frontman, never afraid to be outspoken, the irrepressible Yorkshireman …

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£16 – £18

Monoliths – Friday

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …

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£5

Mr Owen’s Pocketbook

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Wilfred Owen lived his last summer in Ripon. He spent his last birthday in the Cathedral which now provides a fitting backdrop for Rupert Mason’s one-man performance.An officer travels from Allied HQ to the Western Front one week before the Armistice and discovers the pocket book of a young lieutenant killed that day. The show …

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£8 – £10

Monoliths – Saturday morning

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …

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£5

Monoliths – Saturday afternoon

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …

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£5

The Trial of John Sinkler

Courthouse Museum Minster Road, Ripon, United Kingdom

Step inside a Magistrates Court room virtually unchanged since first being built and experience justice 1871 style in Ripon Courthouse as members of the Workhouse Theatre group invite you to the trial of John Sinkler for Poaching and Threatening to shoot a watcher. Ensure Justice is seen to be done as audience members or perhaps …

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£4