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Not Even God
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Sound recording, story; Not Even God an
African folk tale and trickster tale, 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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Story introduced and told by Jan Blake,
followed by interval break. A story about a man who marries a
beautiful wife, but without reason becomes insecure, jealous and
suspicious of her. He locks her up behind seven doors. She
manages to obtain a key and promptly does take a lover. Her
husband's suspicion grows when one-day he finds one of the doors
left unlocked. He tells his wife that he will take her to the
oracle stone (where only the truth can be told) where she must
lay her head on the stone and declare that only he, her husband,
has seen her nakedness. She tells her lover to dress as a donkey
man and wait on the route to the stone. She then exposes herself
to him when mounting a donkey to travel to the stone, and then
admits to the stone, that only her husband and the donkey man
have seen her nakedness. Thereby telling the truth and tricking
her husband.
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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, 12 minutes, 25 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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origin:-
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Africa
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Crick Crack Club season flyer and event listing
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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storyteller; musician; singer: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
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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