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| Sound recording, story; The Companion, from the Grateful Dead story group, a European wonder tale of Scandinavian origin, told by Abbi Patrix in the Big Top at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 8th July 2000. | |
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| Iintroduction, followed by story told by Abbi Patrix; a version of the Companion, which Abbi refers to as a marvel tale. Abbi accompanies himself with music and song. The story is about a young man who embarks on a journey to find a women of whom he has dreamed. He is joined by a companion who helps him overcome difficulties with three troll hags and gain possession of three magical items - a sword, a ball of string and a hat. The young man and the companion use these magical items to free the women, who becomes the young man's wife. | |
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| The recording is incomplete. Within the gap in the story the young man decides that he wants to find the women in his dreams and sets off on a journey. He enters a town, which has in the town square, a giant block of ice, which people are spitting on as they pass. | |
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| Abbi writes, 'for the past twenty years I have travelled here and there in the company of Norwegian Trolls. Today I can openly state that, yes, Trolls do exist: I have met them! From the Nordic mythology and folk tales, to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, I have come across many Trolls - both the inner and the outer kind. The Companion is a beautiful tale, and both kinds of Troll exist within it. The story has been, as its title suggests, a real companion. It has accompanied my life as a storyteller; and has continually revealed new and hidden aspects of reality. I am happy therefore, to give it another new life by sharing it with you, in a flow of sounds and words, and told in its own unique blend of French, Norwegian and English'. | |
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| R1125 is a recording of The Companion told by Abbi Patrix at the Crick Crack Club in London, in 1991. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| language:- | English; French; Norwegian |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | incomplete |
| duration:- | 1 hour, 2 minutes, 36 seconds |
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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: Abbi Patrix male / French / Norwegian |
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| origin:- | Scandinavia Europe |
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| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
| storytelling:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Big Top
08 Jul 2000 festival: Beyond the Border Festival |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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