A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun
By Dougie Mackay & Jemima Thewes
- Performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2025 and 2026 with 4 and 5 star reviews.
- Fringe Review: “Highly Recommended” show.
- Winner of the Derek award for Storytelling 2025 & 2026.
Respected by ancient cultures but the archetypal villain in European fairy tales, wolves were hunted to extinction in Scotland by the 18th century. Ancient myth, mesmeric imagery and dreamlike soundscapes open a liminal space where Norse gods, Irish shapeshifters and Siberian wolf-children traverse Scottish moors and Transylvanian mountains. Live music stirs the soul. Shadow puppetry and animation portray terror and playfulness. Stories about our oldest ally ask: in the absence of the wolf, what is lost?
Originally commissioned by the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2024.
BSL interpreted Sun 9 Aug. Interpretation by Sarah Forrester.
Such a warming, imaginative, subtle yet powerful performance. Transporting me in time and space and thought and emotion. I take some gentle wildness with me. Beautiful. Thank you!
Audience member
‘I was so mesmerised I had abandoned taking notes’
Snack *****
‘Powerful and magical’
The List ****
‘Richly textured’
CorrBlimey.uk ****
