• 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 new solo work by theatre maker, performer and physical comedian Natalie Bellingham. It is about the pain and beauty of growing older, of connecting and unravelling, of taking hold and letting go. This new solo performance uses comedy, storytelling, movement and interaction to uncover some of the things in …

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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

    *SOLD OUT* 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. …

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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
  • Theatre for One

    Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

    Street theatre with a difference. 3 short performances lasting 3 minutes. Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!) A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience! “A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile. Sometimes …

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  • The Wakeman Mummers

    Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

    FREE EVENT 11.15-11.30am Ripon Cathedral forecourt 1.15-1.30pm Ripon Cathedral forecourt