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Three Snake Leaves, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Three Snake Leaves, combined folk tales and wonder tales based on a number of stories collected by The Brothers Grimm, told by The Company of Storytellers, with musical accompanyment by the artists, as part of a mini-festival of stories Stories Within Stories, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre of the Barbican Centre, London. 8th July 2004. | |
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| Introduction by Jillian Barker, Head of Education at The Barbican Centre, London, followed by story with simple musical accompanyment by The Company of Storytellers - Hugh lupton, Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton. Music based on Provencal Troubadour themes. | |
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| A musician walking though a forest meets three travellers and travels with them. Each member of the travelling party tells a story in turn, gradually revealing which of the characters within their story is themselves. | |
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| The piece is based on and represents a reworking of elements of a number of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm: Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. The piece takes elements of tale numbers: 8, 16, 17, 35, 60, 65, 158, 159 and 198 (the complete GRimm's Tales RKP/Pantheon edition) as well as drawing on dozens of other versions of these stories from many parts of the world. | |
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| The piece was originally commissioned in the summer of 1994, by the South Bank Centre's Literature Department, to compliment a combined exhibition of Gemran Romantic Paintings and a concert series of German romantic music. At that point the Company of Storytellers also wanted to celebrate 10 years of their work together: something that 'would challenge three performers to compose a piece that any one couldn't do on his or her own' | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 1 hour, 59 minutes, 48 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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| The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
Master of Ceremonies: Jillian Barker female / British / occupation Educationalist; Head of Barbican Education |
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| origin:- |
folklorist: The Brothers Grimm
folklorist: Jakob Grimm folklorist: Wilhelm Grimm Europe Indo-European |
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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
08 Jul 2004 mini-festival; public performance: Stories within Stories The Three Snake Leaves |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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