Giles Abbott

This Thursday, if you drop in at CSMVS, you will find Giles Abbott narrating struggles of Pygmalion, an artist who falls in love with the statue of an ideal woman that he has created. Titled Caught On The Horns, it is a 45-minute retelling of a Greek myth by Roman poet Ovid. Abbott — one of the leading storytellers in UK, lost his vision in 1999, which triggered him to take up storytelling — will captivate seven-year-olds and senior citizens alike, by modulating his voice for different characters, adding theatrics with facial expressions and evoking laughter with new-age references; there’s one to feta cheese. He is here to perform as part of the sixth edition of Kathakar — International Storytellers Festival that travels and makes its debut in Mumbai after performances in Delhi and Bengaluru.