Parrot Theatre Company presents Death and the Carpenter, a folk tale about death and love that combines performance, puppetry and live music to bring you an unforgettable evening of storytelling.

A young man stumbles upon Death in the woods, practicing his fiddle. This hapless carpenter has heard the first part of an improvised tune played by Death on his fiddle. Now he is trapped in limbo: he has seen Death but cannot die until the tune ends. The pair strike a bargain. If Death can finish the tune by sunset, he will claim the carpenter’s life for himself. If Death fails, the man will go free. Playing for time, the carpenter draws Death into talking about his music and the unlikely love story behind his fiddle.

Following a successful Edinburgh run of Talk (2019) and a sold out run of Macbeth in The Westgate Towers Canterbury (2022), Parrot Theatre Company presents this darkly funny story that explores the universal themes of love, death, and fate. Adapted from a short story of the same name by writer Sonia Overall, Death and the Carpenter reimagines death and mortality through the folk music of Greg Ireland and the puppetry of James Frost.