Writing this story took over three years. Mingma and Sophie discuss the origins of the idea, the secular history of Churches, the writing process, the history of the folktale Childe Rowland and the research didn’t make the final cut.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

The theatre production of ‘In the Stones’ is produced by Troubadour Stageworks (Charity no. 1193809)

The past is not yet spent and the future is long gone.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (Charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

I saw them and I knew them all and yet, Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set and blewChilde Rowland to the dark tower came.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (Charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

The figures are stilted in movement, a mechanised rotation that holds no intention.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

The threat is uncertain, time multiplied, words ward off fear of what might be outside…Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voiced Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (Charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

Marriage, in which stories begin to matter.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

2022 Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (Charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

It is April, St Mark’s Eve, the time where you might catch a glimpse of those who may die that year. Rowland finds himself among those caught at the moment of parting.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

Nativity plays, but who is the angel? Who is the Mage? Who is in the basket, what in the straw, unwinding and broken now shadows before…

Rowland enters the first realm of The Other Side of Things.

Originally a play, the illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (charity no. 1193809)

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

Rowland finds himself at a crossing path, a betwixt and between, and neverwhere of dreams remembering and forgetting. This is the road to the other side of things.

Originally a play, an illustrated storybook of ‘In the Stones’, is available from the Troubadour Stageworks website, as is the option to donate to the charity by purchasing the audio play and music album.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (charity no. 1193809)

Siblings Ellen and Rowland are playing in their local churchyard. When Rowland throws a ball high over the church tower, he and his sister argue and Burd Ellen runs ‘widdershins’ (anti-clockwise) around the church, and vanishes.

Written by Sophie Haxworth and Mingma Hughes

Illustrations by Jasmine Silk

Voice Cast:

Narrator, Mabel - Mingma Hughes

Childe Rowland - Lewis Williams

Burd Ellen, Martha, Liz, - Jasmine Silk

Rosaline, Merry - Sophie Haxworth

Gilbert, Edwin - Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Gargoyle, Grim, Priest, Harry  - James Crellin

Music Performed by Sophie Haxworth, Mingma Hughes & Jacob Thierry-Simpson

Stage production produced by Troubadour Stageworks (charity no. 1193809)