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Sound recording, story; a wonder tale and transformation tale from Siberia told using objects by Jeorg Baesecke, as part of the programme Around the World in Eighty Minutes, 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, 11th November 2005.

Introduction, followed by story told by Jeorg Baesecke; illustrated using torn paper. A brother and sister live together. When food become short the brother leaves to find food, leaving the sister in charge of the fire. She falls to sleep and lets the fire go out. The sister then goes to seek fire and finds a tent with an old women with huge ears sleeping inside. She asks for fire and the women grants it, but when the girl return homes with the fire, she finds that the women has tied a thread to her dress so that she can follow her home. The girl breaks the thread and runs away. The women comes to the tent and seeks out the girl. Just as the women is about to catch the girl, the brother appears. The women transforms herself into a horse; then into a hare, but is killed and her stomach bursts open releasing all the people she had eaten. Some of the released people are happy, some are cross at being released.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 10 minutes

Performing in the programme Around the World in Eighty Minutes were Jeorg Baesecke and Hedwig Rost.

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).

storytelling:- storyteller: Jeorg Baesecke
male / German / German, North West / born 07.02.1954

origin:- Siberia


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associated:- storyteller; musician: Hedwig Rost


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
11 Nov 2005
mini-festival; public performance: The North Wind Speaks
Around the World in Eighty Minutes


gift from:- The Barbican Centre


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