The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival: Debs Newbold - DAUNTLESS: Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen (14+)

The story

At the age of eight, Grace hid on board her father's ship. This is how she grew into a true force of nature of the sixteenth century: a multilingual weapons expert and leader of two thousand men, but also a rebel, politician, passionate lover, avenging heroine and notorious pirate.

And best of all: she really existed.

From the west of Ireland to the court of Elizabeth I, from a wild youth to an even wilder old age: Dauntless is an epic ode to exuberant storytelling, high drama and a fascinating feminist from the sixteenth century. Knights in shining armour need not apply.

Age

This performance is primarily made for adults and young people aged 14 and over. The performance contains descriptions of birth, postpartum bleeding, violence and death.

About Debs Newbold

Debs Newbold is an award-winning performer who creates inventive and playful performances that get deep under your skin.

She is one of the most renowned storytellers in the world. With her passion, craftsmanship and special talent, Debs knows how to bring out the epic in the everyday. She has created work for, among others, the Royal Opera House, the BBC, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the United Nations and Shakespeare’s Globe. In addition, she regularly brings her performances to theatres and festival stages all over the world.

About The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival

When the days get darker and colder, it is time to come together and warm our hearts with stories. This year, The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival invites you to meet the Seer - not as a fortune teller, but as someone who hears truth. Blind to appearances and distractions, the Seer notices what others overlook and sees what remains invisible to ordinary eyes.

Through performances, lectures and workshops, the festival offers space for stories that dare to explore the uncomfortable, the invisible and the unknown. From inner worlds to the boundaries of life and death, from visions to imagination… unspoken truths, looming disasters, secrets behind masks. The Seer knows. Who dares to listen?