Stephe Harrop is Associate Professor of Drama at Liverpool Hope University. She is also a contemporary storyteller, creating and touring work across the UK and beyond.

List of Figures

List of Interviews

Acknowledgements

Introduction

0.1 Storytelling as Professional Performance

0.2 Female Artists as Storytellers

0.3 Talking to Storytellers

0.4 Storytelling Presences

Chapter 1 - Storytelling Presences

1.1 Sarah Rundle, The Poorest Hee (2013)

1.2 Clare Murphy, The Nine Muses of Queen's Crescent (2022)

1.3 Jo Blake, Blodeuwedd Untold (2018)

1.4 Summary: Contemporary Presences

Chapter 2 - Storytelling Authorship

2.1 Alys Torrance, Up Endings! (2021)

2.2 Rachel Rose Reid, Silence (2018)

2.3 Mara Menzies, Blood and Gold (2019)

2.4 Summary: Authoring Storytelling Performances

Chapter 3 - Devising Storytelling

3.1 Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, The Girl and The Snake Witch (2018)

3.2 Alys Torrance, Stoopid (2019)

3.3 Debs Newbold, Outrageous Fortune (2020)

3.4 Summary: Devising New Storytellings

Chapter 4 - Aural Storytelling

4.1 Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, The Devil's Violin (2019)

4.2 Laura Sampson, Three-Crossing River (2022)

4.3 Debs Newbold, Lost in Blue (2022)

4.4 Summary: Aurality and Story Performance

Chapter 5 - Sites of Storytelling

5.1 Tamar Eluned Williams, Pathways/Llwybrau (2020)

5.2 Vanessa Woolf, Trees (2021) and Ghosts of the Thames (2020)

5.3 Tim Ralphs and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, The Game of Seven Candles (2021)

5.4 Summary: Sites of Storytelling

Chapter 6 - Story-Performance in New Media

6.1 Mara Menzies, The Giver of Joy (2021)

6.2 Jo Blake, What Do You See With Your Eye to the Keyhole? (2020)

6.3 Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Kitchen Goddess (2020)

6.4 Summary: Story, Media, and Emergent Spaces

Chapter 7 - Story-Performance and Social Practice

7.1 Rachel Rose Reid, Sofa Story Club (2020)

7.2 Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Goddess Lounge (2020-21)

7.3 Pyn Stockman, Tell It To The Bees (2022)

7.4 Summary: Making Social Rituals

Chapter 8 - Storytelling and Slam

8.1 Clare Murphy, Myth Off (2011)

8.2 Lucy Lill & Alys Torrance, Women Who Gave No F**ks (2019)

8.3 Summary: Story, Slam, and Inventing Traditions

Conclusion

9.1 Sally Pomme Clayton, The Frog Princess Punked (2019)

9.2 Contemporary Storytelling Performance

Index