Witch with Her Skirt on Fire

Finally, finally, finally, some AAA-grade grass-fed non-GMO free-range whimsy.

This show is plenty meaningful, and its writer trusts you to be clever enough to figure that out - an instinct, which, marvellously, frees the script up to explore its real magic: the delight of imagination.

Playwright/Performer/Archivist of Secret Worlds Megan Markham guides you through a gallery of her glittering visions: eternal libraries, glass witches, and questing clockmakers make for a rich universe or two.

There’s just a sprinkling of self-awareness, but never enough to spoil the effect. Markham knows what she’s doing, and she neither skimps with her potions nor lays them on too thick. It’s fun. It’s beautiful. It’s important. It’s the only bedtime story that might wake you up - to a world of glass feet, treacherous books, and skirts that are still, centuries later, on fire.

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Fantastic and entertaining story telling well worth seeing

Megan is a captivating and precise performer and a skilled writer, and the world she weaves through these original stories is mystical, whimsical, and a little haunting. Her take on the maiden, mother, and crone was interesting and personal, but truth be told, I would have been delighted to sit in the story of the library at the center of the universe for the entire show. Witch With Her Skirt on Fire was a great addition to this year's fringe lineup!

Step into a world where every story feels like it has been passed down through generations. Witch With Her Skirt on Fire, created and performed by storyteller Megan Markham, is a magical collection of tales about witches, pain, growth, and the power of magic.

Performed in a non-traditional space, the show proves that you don’t need elaborate sets or countless props to create an enchanting world. Markham’s expressive physical storytelling and vivid, descriptive language bring each tale to life, making it easy to picture every magical moment. Her stories feel like comforting fairytales, the kind I’d personally want to hear as a child before falling asleep.

With its whimsical atmosphere and captivating storytelling, Witch With Her Skirt on Fire is a charming choice for anyone who loves fairytales, folklore, or a little witchy magic.

Megan Markam is a spellbinding storyteller. Her brilliantly crafted narratives are met with her engaging delivery, leaving you hanging on every word. Hers is a solo show with minimal props, but her physicality punctuates every beat beautifully in a way most transportative. Though the central through line is not terribly complex, Markam has a way of weaving of differing fables into one singular quilt of shared experience. Each new story she spins builds upon her themes of acceptance and finding the power within ourselves that at once feel familiar yet fresh, like ancient tales told for our times.

If you're looking for some magical storytelling with an abracadabra aesthetic, Markam is the witch for you.

A delightful evening of stories told by Megan Markham that will delight you with tales of witches, family, and wonder.

This storyteller has a knack for teasing emotions out of her audience and for being light on her toes when a stray laugh (or next-door jackhammer) allows her to take a moment to embrace her improvisational chops.

Writer/performer Megan Markham’s solo show consists of a series of fairytale-like stories about witches and witchcraft. The imagery and ideas are often charmingly inventive: the library at the centre of the universe that contains every book ever written; the lead character in another story who’s called The Clockmaker because she’s living in time when people love their jobs enough to be named after them; in a third story, the maiden with hair of starlight.

But, by the time I got to that starlight, I was fatigued: I’d been getting a lot of ornamentation, but not much substance.

Markham attempts to pull everything together with a framing device: telling these stories, she’s trying to convince her conservative Christian grandmother that witches are okay. But the okayness of witches is already a given in this piece, so the device holds little tension and supplies little reward.

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Megan is a fantastic writer/performer and her show takes you across many wonderful tales that feel like they’ve been told for many, many years 💜 Have seen it more than once and it’s just as good each time! If you enjoy witches and storytelling magic, this is the show for you!

If you’ll permit me, Megan Markham’s Witch with Her Skirt on Fire is spellbinding. I absolutely loved it. I walked in not knowing what to expect, but what I found was a one woman show that carried me through time, memory, and the wild terrains held within the human heart.

From the first moment, Markham commands the stage with a presence that feels both expansive containing worlds and deeply intimate. Like this show is just for you. A secret shared.

She threads together stories of childhood wonder, then switches to aching and longing without missing a beat, and then into the fragile beauty of life itself. Her transitions are seamless, her voice shifting between places of vulnerability and power like a spell being woven in real time.

At times, I felt suspended in the quiet magic of her storytelling; at others, I was swept into the pages of a book that I didn’t want to put down. Maybe that’s why when it ends, I left satiated but hungry…satisfied with the journey, but longing to walk its paths again.

The best stories linger with you. So do yourself a favor. Take a second and just get lost with her. I promise you, it’s a journey that you’ll think about long after the show is over.