The acclaimed novelist and playwright Stella Duffy directs this new piece by Shaky Isles, about a mysterious creature beneath the Thames.

A story for anyone who calls London home. Sometimes.

There is a Taniwha (tah’ni’fa) in the Thames. A sea-monster, and shape shifter, like, yet not quite like, the Maori water spirit of legend. It does not need us, but it likes our attention, feeds on our interest. And its intentions are not always good.

The Taniwha swims the Effra, the Peck, the Fleet. It knows the mysteries of the city and the secrets of your heart. It is the feeling in the dark places and quiet corridors, of knowing that someone - something - ­is just ... over ... there.

A visceral tale that stretches across time and space to ask what it means to belong, wherever you make your home.

"haunted and haunting... it seeps into your bones"
* * *  Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

"...collapses pages of history into imaginative and often strikingly beautiful scenes."
Tom Wicker, Time Out

"There's magic and mystery in the telling"
The Londonist

"Potent and.... appealing"
Matt Trueman, Carousel of Fantasies
 

TaniwhaThames is produced by Shaky Isles Theatre and Ovalhouse

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• Tue 15 Nov – Sat 3 Dec, 7:45pm
• Wed 16 Nov – Sun 4 Dec, 7:45pm
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• Fri 18 Nov – Tue 6 Dec, 7:45pm
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• Sun 20 Nov – Thu 8 Dec, 7:45pm
• Tue 22 Nov – Sat 10 Dec, 7:45pm
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