Monday, July 18, 2011

"fire" mouthoff on July 17th, 2011

Alan White, hosts "fire" at Waterfront park
"fire" mouthoff on July 17th, 2011
by Andrea Lovett

On a warm night in Columbus Park, thirty delighted listeners and ten tellers were the ingredients in a recipe for a successful mouthoff . This the second in a series of mouthoffs in Boston this summer. Our  host for the evening was massmouth member, Alan White. Alan is both an actor and storyteller who performs throughout New England, telling historical tales of ghastly deeds and high piracy along the Freedom Trail in Boston. He also tours his new storytelling show "Around the World in Folk and Fairy Tales." On Sunday, Alan entertained the audience with his delightful stories and his wry sense of humor.  

We listened to tellers from as far away as Kentucky and as close by as the neighborhoods of Boston. The theme for the evening was "fire" in keeping with our 4 elemental  themes. We kicked  off our mouthoff season with "water" in June.  We were fortunate to have drawn such  an engaged and lively audience, many of whom stayed the entire evening.

We look forward to featuring host Karen Given from WBUR's Only A Game.  Karen is a Season II story slam winner,  massmouth member, and future cohost of the Season III, Club Passim story slams.  She will make sure stories flow and "Creep in their petty pace " at our Shakespeare mouthoff  on the Boston Common on August 7th.

Check our website for details. www.massmouth.ning.com/events  More event pictures at Facebook page "massmouth,inc."
Website for Alan:
http://www.thealanwhite.com/
Listen to Karen here:
http://tinyurl.com/3zmlwpw