Welcome to our new audio series, Telling Tales: Tradition/Transition, where we interview performance storytellers of colour in Scotland about their craft and their relationship to folklore.
In this debut episode, we chat with Niall Moorjani about the need for violence and darkness in stories, finding our marginalised selves reflected in traditional tales, the future of storytelling in an increasingly diverse Scotland, and much more!
Hosted by Kelly Kanayama, SBWN’s Editorial Manager.
A transcript is available here.
Content note: this episode discusses folktales and myths dealing with sexual assault, forced marriage, domestic abuse, postpartum/postnatal mental health issues, and graphic violence.
In this episode:
- Folktale prototypes and variations
- Cross-cultural storytelling: sharing vs. appropriation
- Selkie discourse
- Trans identities and parallels in folklore and myth
- The dangers of sanitising folklore
- Finding Scottish stories that represent us as people of colour
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This post is part of Telling Tales: Tradition/Transition, our new audio series that gives performance storytellers of colour in Scotland a space to discuss their craft on their own terms.
Niall Moorjani is an award winning and critically acclaimed Scottish-Indian, non-binary and neurodiverse writer, storyteller and theatre maker based between Edinburgh and London.
Instagram/Facebook: @niallmoorjani