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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.

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.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 19 minutes, 21 seconds

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.

storytelling:- 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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associated:- storyteller: Jasna Held


programming:- Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose


administration:- administrator: St Donats Arts Centre


storytelling:- St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Tythe Barn
02 Jul 2005
festival: Beyond the Border Festival


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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