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Ananse and Jackass
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an Ananse story
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Sound recording, story; Ananse and Jackass, a
Jamaican folk tale, trickster tale and Ananse story, told by Jan
Blake, at The Crick Crack Club at The Old Farm House Pub, Kentsh
Town, London 10th October 1991
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Disucssion about which story to tell next
between TUUP and Jan Blake. Introduction to story with comment on
a Jamaican Christmas procession 'Junkanoo', which involves two
characters, a man with a donkey's head and Pitchy Patchy, a
trickster character who can inuslt the slave owners, followed by
call and response and story told by Jan Blake. The story tells of
why the donkey figure-head is processed at Junkanoo. Ananse
decides he wishes to win the Junkanoo processional prize. He
feeds Donkey a quantity of cane juice to make him drunk. Ananse
then rides Donkey to the procession and Donkey's drunken dancing
wins Ananse the prize. Since then Donkey has been too ashamed to
go to the Junkanoo festival, so he is represented by a man with a
donkey's head.
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Programme note reads - Jan, who is of Jamaican
parentage, sings and tells tales of Anansi, the Ashanti
trickster-god-spider-man. TUUP, who is of guyanese parentage,
tells stories from the tribal cultures of the world. Together
they make for an evening of wild humour, song and
rhythm
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 8 minutes, 10 seconds
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This event was a shared performance by Jan Blake and TUUP.
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This is one of a series of recordings made by Marc Jobst to
create a pilot of a series of radio programmes entitled Cracking
Tales for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Pilots were made, but the
programme was never broadcast.
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The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was
the first regular performance storytelling club to be established
in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of
storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty.
It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to
tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised
need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform
competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the
proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling
Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the
first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in
a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed
aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for
established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for
adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty
with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club
promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987
and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001.
During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and
mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In
1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department
it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a
year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during
this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St.
Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created
the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and
Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from
1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a
peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in
partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a
long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to
promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Jan Blake
female / British Jamaican / African Caribbean / British / born
18.03.1964
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storytelling:-
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storyteller; musician; singer: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
male / British / Guyanese
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origin:-
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Jamaica
Afro-Caribbean
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Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing
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Click to enlarge images
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use:-
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BBC Radio 4
Marc Jobst
radio broadcast pilot |
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administration & programming:-
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administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club
administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty
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storytelling:-
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Kentish Town, London, England: The Old Farm House Pub
10 Oct 1991
storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club
public performance
radio production
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gift from:-
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Marc Jobst
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007