The Compelling Story of a Secret Messenger

 

This is a story about a bird and its extraordinary journey – but it is also a journey of the imagination, that makes a bird’s migration more than a just physical event but a metaphor for movement through time and space

 

Myth and science meet in this compelling tale of an iconic bird’s journey - told through story and song by Malcolm and Joshua Green. ‘Intimate and affecting’, ‘an engaging & beautifully constructed tour de force'.

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It all starts just after dawn at RAF Fylingdales on the North York Moors. A male Cuckoo is having a tiny 4.5g radio transmitter strapped to his back. A few weeks later he will have flown thousands of miles south and 3 miles high over the Sahara Desert, sending signals back to England as he travels through Libya and Chad to the Congo.

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For thousands of years the Cuckoo has been part of folklore and its call present in songs, poems and stories. But now this bird is disappearing in England and people are already forgetting his iconic 'cuck-coo' song  

 

See Facebook: Gone Cuckoo@Talesongs

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‘Musicianship and environmental performance-art meet history and myth…’. Dave Pritchard (Chair, UK Arts & Environment Network, and consultant to the Convention on Migratory Species)

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‘The performance was precise and compelling … such an exciting, multi-layered adventure.’ Linda France (award-winning poet)

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‘Gone Cuckoo was inspiring and moving… it will fill audiences of all ages with wonder and delight.’ Prof. Nick Davies (author of ‘Cuckoo, Cheating by Nature’)