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Sound recording, story; a folk tale and
trickster tale told by Mats Rehnman, sharing a stage with Jasna
Held in the Tythe Barn at the Beyond the Border Festival, St
Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 2nd
July 2005.
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Comment about dividing society between
realists and romantics, followed by a story about this division,
told by Mats Rehnman. A story about an old merchant who searches
for a wife, and offers a good bridal sum, but demands that he can
see the women naked before he settles the deal. Eventually he
finds a women who agrees and they marry. They live happily, but
the man goes blind and the women ends up looking after the old
man, the house and the merchant's work. They decide to employ a
scribe to help her with her work. The women interviews them and
asks them all to undress before she settles the deal. The women
begins an affair with the scribe, without her husband's
knowledge. On one occasion the women and the scribe are making
love in the apple tree above her husband's head and they are
spotted by the neighbours, who wish for the husband's sight to
return. Their wish is granted and the affair is discovered, but
the women tricks her husband into thinking that her affair had
been part of her prayer and plan to restore his
eyesight.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 19 minutes, 21 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: Mats Rehnman
male / Swedish / Swedish, urban / Lapland, rural / born
18.07.1954
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Festival programme
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Mats Rehnman performing in the Tythe Barn
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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storyteller: Jasna Held
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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
02 Jul 2005
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