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Not Even God

Sound recording, story; Not Even God, an African folk tale and trickster tale told by Jan Blake, as part of the programme Thrones of Justice, in a mini-festival of Thrones of Freedom, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 1st June 2005.

Crick Crack Call and response followed by story told by Jan Blake. A story about a man who marries a beautiful wife, but without reason becomes insecure, jealous and suspicious of her. He locks her up behind seven locked doors. She manages to obtain a key and promptly does take a lover. Her husband's suspicion grows when one-day he finds one of the doors left unlocked. He tells his wife that he will take her to the oracle stone (where only the truth can be told), where she must lay her head on the stone and declare that only he, her husband, has seen her nakedness. She tells her lover to dress as a donkey man and wait on the route to the stone. She then exposes herself to him when mounting a donkey to travel to the stone, and then admits to the stone, that only her husband and the donkey man have seen her nakedness. Thereby telling the truth and tricking her husband.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 19 minutes, 33 seconds

Performing in the programme Thrones of Justice were Jan Blake and TUUP.

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).

storytelling:- storyteller: Jan Blake
female / British Jamaican / African Caribbean / British / born 18.03.1964

origin:- Africa


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associated:- storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan


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


©  The London Centre for International Storytelling: 2007
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