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| Sound recording, story; a wonder tale of West African or Afro-Caribbean origin told by Jan Blake, as part of the programme Thrones of Justice, in a mini-festival of stories, Thrones of Freedom, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 1st June 2005. | |
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| Crick Crack call and response, followed by story told by Jan Blake. A man awakes to find a tree growing out the front of his head. He goes to a wise women, who declares it a sign of evil. She gives him ointment to remove it, on the understanding that he will send her a cow as payment. The man uses the ointment and gets rid of the tree, but fails to send the cow. When the women sends a boy to collect the cow, the man beats the boy and sends him away. The next morning he awakes with an even larger tree growing from his head. He goes once more to the women, only to find that he now owes her two cows | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 9 minutes, 50 seconds |
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| Performing in the programme Thrones of Justice were Jan Blake and TUUP. | |
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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: Jan Blake female / British Jamaican / African Caribbean / British / born 18.03.1964 |
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| origin:- |
Africa, West
Caribbean
Afro-Caribbean |
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| associated:- |
storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
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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
01 Jun 2005 mini-festival; public performance: Thrones of Freedom Thrones of Justice |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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