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Ash Girl, The
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a Cinderella story
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Sound recording, story; The Ash Girl, a wonder
tale from the Cinderella story group, told by Michael Harvey in
the Tythe Barn at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art
Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 4th July
2004.
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Boots-stockings call and response, followed by
story told by Michael Harvey. A story about an ill-treated
stepdaughter who is helped by a passing beggar women to atttend
church, where she is noticed by the Prince who seeks her out and
marries her, making her a Princess. One of her stepsisters comes
to the palace as a midwife and each time the Princess gives
birth, her stepsister swaps the child for a dog, so that she is
marked as a witch. The beggar women appears again to the Princess
and saves her from being burnt alive by turning her into a pig,
which runs away. Meanwhile the three children are left in the
woods, where they meet a pig who tells them that if they should
see a pig's liver hanging on a gate, to touch it and make a wish.
The children find a liver and wish for a house. The wish is
granted and the three children live there, until one day a friend
of the Prince sees the house and the children, and notices the
golden belts which they wear around their waists. He promises to
get the belts for the Prince. He manages to get the belts from
two of the children, but not the third. The two children who give
their belts away are turned into swans, until the third child
wishes on a pig's liver once again. The three children then wish
for their mother, the Princess, who appears. The three children
and the Princess wish one last time for the Prince, and are
reunited as a family.
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audience:-
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family
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recording quality
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condition:-
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fair
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 22 minutes, 28 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:-
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storyteller: Michael Harvey
male / British
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Festival programme
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Michael Harvey performing during the festival
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Click to enlarge images
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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storytelling:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Tythe Barn
04 Jul 2004
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007