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Four Moths
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| a Conference of the Birds story | |
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| Sound recording, story; Four Moths, a Persian and Sufi folk tale from The Conference of the Birds, told by Ben Haggarty, with musical accompaniment by Sherry Robinson as part of a first half of a performance on the theme of love, at Leicester Storytelling Club, in Leicester, 2nd October 2004. | |
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| A story about understanding and experience, told by Ben Haggarty accompanied by Sherry Robinson on hammer dulcimer. Under an oak tree an older month is flying with three young moths. They see a light in the night. Each of the three young moths investigates the light in turn to see if they can find out what it is. The first sees it, the second sees it and feels its heat, the third flies closer and dies in its flames. It is only the third moth who actually discovers what it really is. | |
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| The Conference of the Birds is a book of Persian Sufi poetry by Farid ud-DIn Attar. The narrative is of a group of 30 birds, led by the hoopoe, who travel in search of the great Simorgh. In the 1970s the poem was adapted into a play by Peter Brook and John Carriere, which toured in Africa, and was also performed in New York and Paris. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 6 minutes, 48 seconds |
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| Storytelling clubs operate in a variety of formats. Some clubs provide a place where anyone can come and tell stories to a small intimate and specialist audience ('floor-spots'); while other clubs run a programme of performances by professional or semi-professional storytellers, and many clubs do a combination of both. In 2007 the UK had in the region of 55 storytelling clubs: the larger, more prominent clubs provide a low key, small-scale circuit for storytelling, for a specialist-interest audience. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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musician; composer: Sherry Robinson female / Irish |
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| origin:- |
poet: Farid Attar du-Din
composer: Sherry Robinson female / Irish Persia Sufi |
| administration & programming:- |
administrator; programmer: Liza Watts |
| storytelling:- |
Leicester, Midlands, England: The Guild Hall
02 Oct 2004 storytelling club: Leicester Storytelling Club |
| performance recording from:- |
archivist: Kate Norgate |
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