About
What’s all this, then?
As you may have read in the police report (they’re totally dropping the charges, by the way), Chaos Thaoghaire is a night of storytelling, games, camaraderie (ha!), bloody-minded rivalry, and mutual humiliation.
Each month, a featured speaker curates the storytelling element. He or she is often a relatively known or established name, and is the headline act in the narrators’ revue. The games and stories are linked by a shared theme that will be different at every event. Each person will tell a funny, moving, or otherwise personal tale, being as free and oblique as they like with the theme, but using no notes. Stretching the truth is encouraged. If we wanted just the facts, we’d go to court (again).
The theme takes the form of a statement of opinion. When you arrive, you’ll be asked to vote (usually a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’) on it. Near the end of the night, you’ll vote again. Because a good story makes some kind of statement, our storytellers will have – even inadvertently – swayed opinion in one direction or another. It adds a low-risk competitive dimension to the stories that complements the high-risk story element of the games.
Between rounds of storytelling, we’ll have increasingly competitive games, played in teams of three to six. We like being both repository and factory for old and new stories, wounds, scars and grudges. There is rarely blistering, although tears of both victory and of defeat can irritate sensitive skin, so you might want to bring some salve or that cream that the doctor told you to keep in the fridge.
If this still doesn’t make sense, click on the man below. If you have pressing queries, you can contact us here. Failing that, you’ll just have to turn up and see for yourself.
What we really need to stress is that there’s glory goin’. Do you want it?
If you are still confused, poke this man where his eyes should be.