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Sicilian Story, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Sicilian Story, a folk tale and legend from Sicily, told by Ben Haggarty accompanied by musician Sherry Robinson, as part of the programme Beauty and the Beast with other Tales of Lovers of the Rose, in a mini-festival of stories, Journeys of the Heart, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 14th February 2007. | |
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| Comment from Ben Haggarty about St Valentine, and introduction to Sherry Robinson, followed by story about forbidden love told by Ben Haggarty, accompanied by Sherry Robinson on hammer dulcimer and accordian. A young holy man comes to a town and asks for a place where he may create a hermitage. The Lord of the town, lets him have an island to make his home on. A local fisherman takes villagers to visit the man regularly. The daughter of the Lord and the holy man fall in love. The girl swims the sea to meet her lover at night, but when their affair is discovered, her brothers trick her in to swimming in the stormy sea and she drowns. The holy man finds the drowned body of his lover and he lies down on the beach and dies of a broken heart. The two bodies are found - that of the girl, hanging as a skeleton entangled in a rose tree. The bones of the skeleton rattle and tell the tale of family deceit, and the villagers force the Lord and his sons to sea where they drown. | |
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| Programme note reads - Join us on Valentine's Day to find out what really happened in that fairytale forest where the merchant lost his way. Acclaimed storyteller, Ben Haggarty joins forces with cellist/composer Sherry Robinson, to tell a seemingly familiar story in a powerful new way. This brooding multi-layered version of a very ancient tale will creep into your waking dreams and haunt you with its beauty...just as it has countless generations of our ancesters. This is a programme full of dark love stories and music: romantic, rich full of exquisite joy and pain. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 25 minutes, 53 seconds |
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| In 2003, Jillian Barker, Head of Education at the Barbican Centre, London, approached Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, with a proposal to programme regular performance storytelling at the Barbican Centre. Since 2003 the Crick Crack Club has worked in partnership with Barbican Education to programme 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre, for adult audiences. These events are programmed during the three school half terms each year, with usually three evening events per half term. The performances of storytelling are occasionally preceded by pre-show talks. The Pit Theatre is an award winning black box theatre, which seats approximately 180 people (depending on the seating configuration). | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
musician; composer: Sherry Robinson female / Irish |
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| origin:- |
composer: Sherry Robinson female / Irish Sicily |
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| programming & administration:- |
programmer; Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer: The Barbican Centre; Barbican Education |
| storytelling:- |
London, England: The Barbican Centre: The Pit Theatre
14 Feb 2007 mini-festival; public performance: Journeys of the Heart Beauty and the Beast with other Tales of Lovers o |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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