F for the exhalation of breath and paws on mossy ground,
O for startled eyes, both yours and mine
X for the trespasser and the thief

FOX stalks through our mythological dreamland, watching from the margins. As the red-tailed bandit of story, FOX is so often cast as the villain, the scoundrel, the lad. But there is more to FOX than the creeping shadow on the hill. Encounter him here as the night-time wanderer, the charmer, spirit-guide and friend.

In ‘The Smiling Fox’, Jo Blake pays homage to the author BB, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, and his acclaimed first novel about Rufus the fox, Wild Lone. Folktales, biography, autobiography, and passages from the novel are drawn into a web of narrative, crossing time and landscape, to explore the human connection to place through the wild eye of the fox.

Let Jo Blake draw you into a performance of precision, beauty and unrepentant poetry.

Come and dine with The Smiling Fox…