David had a wonderfully calm, almost spiritual presence and once having included all of his audience with a welcome smile, gently introduced his Story Telling for Adults session with some drumming a wonderful creation myth from the San Bushmen of South Africa.  This was a tale from 125,000 years ago and beautifully told with wide sweeping hand gestures to suggest a world covered totally in water.

This was like Jackanory for adults and David told the stories so well, with more creative gestures and wonderfully expressive vocabulary.  He moved on to The Real Sleeping Beauty story, a tale about Genghis Khan somewhat reminiscent of a Baron Munchausen tale, which grew taller and taller in the telling and certainly produced many smiles around the room.  By now his audience was completely entranced and he delivered a wonderfully lyrical and romantic tale of witchcraft and a beautiful woman who would turn into a pure white doe at full moon out on the moor, and her admirer who wished to make her his own.

This was truly the art of oral history and something that adult life is often missing. Story telling is part of the history of every culture.  David brings magic and wonder back into story telling.  Well worth catching wherever you may see him listed as performing.