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| Sound recording, story; a folk tale, from the Blue Beard group, told by Xanthe Gresham as part of the programme New Voices, in the Ceilidh Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 4 July 1999. | |
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| Traditional tale told, with a modern setting, by Xanthe Gresham. A girl marries. When her husband goes away she is banned from going into one room. The girl enters the room, which is found to be full of blood and murdered women. Having unlocked the door, she can't wipe the blood from the key, so she throws it into the lake. Her husband returns and finds the key missing. He attempts to murder the girl, but she escapes, and he is caught. | |
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| This story is possibly based on The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 16 seconds |
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| Performing in the New Voices programme were Sam Stone and Xanthe Gresham, with musician Sherry Robinson. | |
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| Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Xanthe Gresham female / British |
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| festival programme | |
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Sam Stone
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| associated:- |
musician; composer: Sherry Robinson
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| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
| administration:- |
administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
| storytelling:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Ceilidh Tent
04 Jul 1999 festival: Beyond the Border Festival New Voices |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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