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Metamorphoses
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| an Ovid's Metamorphoses story; Greek Mythology story | |
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| Sound recording, story; Metamorphoses, a version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which orginates from Greek mythology, told by Daniel Morden and Hugh Lupton in the Bradenstoke Hall at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 2nd July 2004. | |
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| Introduction by Erica Wagner followed by story told in two halves by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden. Metamorphoses serves as an introduction to the gods and goddesses, introducing their powers, provinces and temperaments. Stories include that of Demeter and Persephone, Orpheus in the Underworld, Echo and Narcissus. | |
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| Born in 43BC, Publius Ovidus Naso, wrote Metamorphoses in Rome, about two thousand years ago. Most of the stories in Ovid's collection are Greek Myths and Legends, but the names of divinities and mortals have been Romanised. In this performance the performers returned the names to their Greek origins. | |
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| Metamorphoses was the first of a trilogy of performances by High Lupton and Daniel Morden, followed by the Iliad and the Odyssey. | |
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| Metamorphoses was originally commissioned by The Guardian Hay Festival. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 1 hour, 24 minutes, 54 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: Hugh Lupton male / British / English |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Daniel Morden male / Welsh / British / born 30.07.1964 |
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Master of Ceremonies: Erica Wagner female / American, North / occupation Literary Editor of the Times; author |
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| origin:- |
poet: Ovid; Publius Ovidus Naso
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| Festival programme | |
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| Daniel Morden performing during the festival | |
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| Hugh Lupton performing during the festival | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Bradenstoke Hall
02 Jul 2004 festival: Beyond the Border Festival |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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