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Three Snake Leaves, The
Sound recording, story; The Three Snake Leaves, combined folk tales and wonder tales based on a number of stories collected by The Brothers Grimm, told by The Company of Storytellers, with simple musical accompanyment, in the Bradenstoke Hall at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 3rd July 2005.
Story with simple musical accompanyment by The Company of Storytellers: Hugh Lupton, Ben Haggarty and Sally Pomme Clayton. Music based on Provencal Troubadour themes. A performance in two halves by Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton and Hugh Lupton. A musician walking though a forest meets three travellers and travels with them. Each member of the travelling party tells a story in turn, gradually revealing which of the characters within their story is themselves.
The piece is based on and represents a reworking of elements of a number of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm: Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. The piece takes elements of tale numbers: 8, 16, 17, 35, 60, 65, 158, 159 and 198 (the complete Grimm's Tales RKP/Pantheon edition) as well as drawing on dozens of other versions of these stories from many parts of the world.
The piece was originally commissioned in the summer of 1994, by the South Bank Centre's Literature Department, to compliment a combined exhibition of Gemran Romantic Paintings and a concert series of German romantic music. At that point the Company of Storytellers also wanted to celebrate 10 years of their work together: something that 'would challenge three performers to compose a piece that any one couldn't do on his or her own'
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	1 hour, 56 minutes, 45 seconds
The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton.
The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It.
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:-	storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers
storytelling:-	storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958
storytelling:-	storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British
storytelling:-	storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh
origin:-	folklorist: The Brothers Grimm folklorist: Jakob Grimm folklorist: Wilhelm Grimm Europe Indo-European
	Festival programme
	The Company of Storytellers performing the Three Snake Leaves.
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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: Bradenstoke Hall 03 Jul 2005 festival: Beyond the Border Festival The Three Snake Leaves
gift from:-	St Donats Arts Centre

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