The Moth, a curated storytelling event that originated “on a back porch in small-town Georgia” more than 20 years ago, has spent the past couple decades sharing more than 40,000 stories via its live events, podcast and Public Radio Exchange’s Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour.
This week, The Moth Mainstage comes to Memorial Hall for an evening of riveting and true personal tales that play off of a specific theme. Five individuals — Phill Branch, Patience Carter, Ruby Cooper, Frimet Goldberger and Samuel James, according to The Moth website — will take the stage to spin stories that have evolved from the concept of “Ether: Mediators and make-believers, betwixt and between.”
The description says attendees can expect “stories of leaping before you look: a breath on the brink before plunging into the deep end. Neither here nor there, metamorphosis or masquerade, the space amidst and among.”
Both The Moth Mainstage events are currently sold-out; contact the venue for more info, or call a guy who knows a guy to get you tickets.
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 and Friday Feb. 7. $28-$48. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com.
This article appears in Jan 22 – Feb 4, 2020.