This is not comedy, play, spoken word or poetry, this is Storytelling.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the sepcies homo sapiens. This sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives

Raw, real and honest. Real people tell real stories from their lives. SYDNEY, April, 2008—New and exciting performance arts company brings an original artform back into the mainstream. A variety of performers will grace the Darlinghurst Theatre stage with Stories from their lives and live music. The Theatre is preparing itself for the sixth series of stories, on Monday 19th of May. Storytelling has real people telling true stories from their lives. It is the rawest form of entertainment in Sydney.

Veteran producer Nick Mattick says: “Without storytelling we would not have narrative, text, comedy, tragedy, the Indigenous Australian population would have little history. It has been in the collect conscious for 40 thousand years. I think its time it was put back in its place as the centre of all entertainment.”

Highlights of previous shows have included stories of:

o Drug addiction and rehabilitation

o Lawlessness and drunken revelry

o The comic firing of a person from his job.

o The complex layers of East Timor’s society