All over the British Isles there are accounts of another realm that lies within and
beyond the visible world, but which we cannot see.
The denizens of that world spill
over into our world sometimes either visibly or invisibly -
Individually they might bear such names as Hob or
Lob or Robin Goodfellow or Queen Mab or Yallery Brown; as a people they are known
as the Todloweries or the Boggarts or the Strangers or the Tylwyth Teg; the realm
they come from has been called Tir-
This Secret
Commonwealth is governed by laws that are strange and paradoxical to us mortals,
and it exercises a power, a ‘glamoury’ that defies all reason.
In this programme of
stories and ballads Hugh Lupton explores the nature of this Otherworld and its strange,
humorous, dangerous, erotic inhabitants…. And their various edgy interactions with
humankind.
This performance is going out at £400
