Acts of Gods

The first venue The Retold Ramayana tour visited (the Budleigh Salterton literature festival, back in the Autumn) was struck by lightning just before the show was about to start.
On Sunday, Daljit performed the last show of the tour: a pocket version of the tale in a yurt in Cornwall (pictured in advance of the audience arriving), as part of the Truro festival. The wind was so gusty that the site fences blew down, and during the performance, the security team had to keep sandbagging the yurt to stop it from flapping away. Daljit boomed over the rattling roof so the audience could hear 'The rabble of arsoora and raksassy / were running about in the sky / like feet tapping on the floorboards upstairs.'
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