Review: Storytelling and song combine in a mesmerising performance

A visionary experience

A soft energy welcomes the audience. Unassuming, she approaches. A powerful voice immediately exclaims prophetic utterings.

Highly poetic and accomplished storytelling leaves the audience engrossed and absorbed as they are taken through a tale that is both simple and complex, its winding nature igniting the imagination. The performance transports them to an ethereal world, leading them through a story where other realms overlap the human dimension.

Imogen Wood’s refined stream of consciousness carries the audience like a flowing current through time and space, weaving a rich tapestry from simple imagery. Through beautiful pronunciation, feeling is expressed in every word, the stored emotion of her inspiration gently drawing listeners in. The journey is profoundly supported by the soft strumming of the guitar and singing that could be from another world.

A true authenticity resonates as the performance guides the audience through aspects of the divine feminine, evoking a revival of forgotten spiritual elements connecting women to the land. Imogen’s performance offers a visionary experience, an impressive act of channelling something deep within and bringing stories to the surface through ancestral memory.

The performance leaves the audience with a sense of spiritual lightness after immersion in this shared experience of nature, walking with the goddess through the seasons in a journey that is both primal and meditative.

By Sophie Rose Phillips