TRUE STORY NIGHTS from Vienna Storytelling Collective brings another exciting line up of storytellers before our summer break. As always, there’ll be surprising, moving, hilarious and sometimes shockingly true stories. BBC drama/comedy producer Turan Ali is your host and welcomes you to a rollercoaster evening with gripping, high quality true stories – some from Vienna. Our ever-changing quartet of storytellers for each show includes novelists, comedians, radio, TV and film professionals, screenplay writers, journalists, performance poets, singer-songwriters and theatre-makers. It will feel like being the priest at a confessional ….except you don’t need to keep it all a secret!
WHAT THE AUDIENCES HAVE SAID : “Exhilarating”, “A brilliant evening every time”, “Funny and very moving”, “Incredibly frank and touching stories !”
True stories guaranteed to astonish, amuse and amaze you with their honesty.
In the line-up for our June 25th TRUE STORY NIGHTS, joining
Turan Ali are Denice Bourbon, Will Milner and Clara Montocchio . Turan Ali has produced, directed and written BBC drama and comedy for over 20 years. He’s of Austrian-Turkish heritage, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna. He’s also a stage storyteller and stand-up comedian who has toured to London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Budapest and Edinburgh where he had a 5 star hit with his Queer Folks’ Tales storytelling show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023 and returns with it to Fringe 2024.
Denice Bourbon is a lesbian/queer feminist performance artist, singer, author, presenter, curator and stand-up comedian. She uses humour and entertainment as an activist tool to draw attention to political issues. In 2017 she co-founded the popular queer comedy club PCCC* (the Politically Correct Comedy Club), which she now runs solo and hosts.
Will Milner is a recovering science fiction writer from Sheffield, England, who now lives in Vienna, where he is studying physiotherapy. He has worked as a guide for reluctant pilgrims, as a copywriter for people who didn't know any better, and an environmental campaigner to people who didn't want to hear about it. He is constantly on the lookout for new ways to embarrass himself.
Clara Montocchio is a Viennese singer-songwriter with South African roots. Her deeply metaphorical writing is steeped in personal history, telling stories of connection and yearning (in English and her mother tongue Afrikaans) and mixing folk-pop, jazz and traditional music from across Europe and South Africa. Clara's debut solo album “My Vreemde Kind" is set to be released in autumn 2024.
Join us for another exciting evening which shows why live storytelling is becoming, internationally, the next big thing.