This Changeling Self
A magical story of love and loss recorded on location at the Edinburgh Festival inspired by the Scottish myth 'Tamlin and the Fairy Queen.'
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The festival was always a place she liked to wonder. She could be there in full view and no-one thought she was more than a performer. She could catch people out, half-drunk some of them would do anything, go anywhere. And she took them. She used it as a time to cross over, let them have some of the songs she kept, some of the stories she knew. But this man, this one she wanted to keep.
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If you want to remember what it feels like to disappear into the Edinburgh Festival...
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Winner of a Prix Marulic 2021
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'In Linda Marshall Griffiths’s modern retelling of the Scottish folk ballad of Tamlin — who loses his heart to the Queen of the Fairies — Tam is a pianist in a show on the Edinburgh Fringe.He meets a woman who sweeps him off his feet. But is he really falling, or is this what love feels like? Does he fly over the city, or is it a dream?Virtuoso story-telling draws you in and, before you know it,the urgent performances of Christine Bottomley as She and Sacha Dhawan as He have you believing in fairies.'
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Radio Times
This Changeling Self by Linda Marshall Griffiths
This Changeling Self by Linda Marshall Griffiths