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Seventh Father of the House,
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Death in a Nut
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| Sound recording, story; The Seventh Father of the House and Death in a Nut, a folk tale and outwitting death story, of Norwegian origin, told by Heidi Dahlsveen, as part of the programme At the Top of the Iceberg, in a mini-festival of stories, The North Wind Speaks, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 10th November 2005. | |
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| Story told by Heidi Dahlsveen. Death is having a day off. Looking at a map, he notices that there is a spot he has not been to for hundreds of years. On his way to that place, he meets a traveller, who traps him in a bottle and throws him away. The traveller reaches a house and asks the father of the house if he can stay the night. The man replies that he is not the father of the house, but his father is inside the house and to ask him. The traveller asks father after father, each of whom directs him to an older man, until he finds the seventh father of the house, curled up in a horn on the wall, who agrees that he can stay. In the morning, he runs back the way he came and finds bottle he had thrown away, he takes off the lid and releases death to go about his work. | |
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| The story is that of The Seventh Father of the House, combined with Death in a Nut. This is the original version of the story, as opposed to the version which was recorded by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe in their collection of Folktales, which is well known by storytellers in the UK. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 8 minutes, 51 seconds |
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| 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). | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Heidi Dahlsveen female / Norwegian / born 14.04.1966 |
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| origin:- |
folklorist: Peter Christen Asbjornsen
folklorist: Jorgen Moe Norway Scandinavia |
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| 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
10 Nov 2005 mini-festival; public performance: The North Wind Speaks At the Top of the Iceberg Norwegian and Sami Folktales |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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