Ben Haggarty: MeZoLith – Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares #12
Ben Haggarty is one of the world’s leading contemporary storytellers, who creates and performs work inspired by international fairy tale, myth and epic. His deep research into ancient stories and cultures also led to the graphic novel series MeZolith with artist Adam Brockbank. Starting from this stone age horror project, we explore all sorts of questions surrounding research and telling (and re-telling) of traditional narrative.
Since the age of stone and bone the storyteller has straddled the worlds seen and unseen, giving voice to tales hoary with age, tales that have been revived time and time again by countless mouths and minds before, remade, refound, rediscovered, remembered.
Ben Haggarty’s website
MeZolith – Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares Book 1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8100001-mezolith?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZXbd…
MeZolith – Stone Age Dreams and Nightmares Book 2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276075-mezolith-book-2
MeZolith artist Adam Brockbank’s website
https://www.adambrockbank.com/
Ben Haggarty’s training videos
REFERENCES
Brothers Grimm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm
Mesolithic period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolithic
Ancient Technology Centre
https://ancienttechnologycentre.com
Doggerland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
Pyrite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite
Vedbek burial, Denmark
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=32656
Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102324.Swamp_Thing_Vol_1
Book: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17669062-shaman
Bertolt Brecht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
Book: Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Ovid
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine
The Kalevala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
Language of the birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_the_birds
The Nart Sagas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nart_saga
Scythians