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Devil's Violin, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Devil's Violin, a Russian Romani wonder tale, creation myth, how and why story and aetiological tale told by TUUP as part of a performance entitled Magic - That World in This, by The Company of Storytellers, at Common Stock Theatre, London, 25th January 1986. | |
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| Story told by TUUP. A story about a girl seeking the help of the devil, to attract the attention of a handsome man. She sacrifices her grandmother and her brother to the devil, who fashions a violin from the hair of her grandmother and the bones of her brother. The girl uses the violin to lure the man to her. | |
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| audience:- | adult (Audience members included storytellers Eric Maddern and Malcolm Green.) |
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| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | incomplete |
| duration 12 minutes, 4 seconds:- | |
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| The performance comprised one of three nights of stories entitled Magic, Tasks and Trickery. The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton, Daisy Keable and Godfrey TUUP. | |
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| 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. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan male / British / Guyanese |
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| origin:- |
Russia
Romani; Gypsy |
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| Flyer advertising three shows by the Company of Storytellers Magic, Tasks and Trickery | |
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| Flyer promoting the Company of Storytellers | |
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana
Keable
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Hugh Lupton
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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| administration:- |
administrator: The Company of Storytellers |
| storytelling:- |
Hammersmith, London, England: Common Stock Theatre
24 Jan 1986 public performance: That World in This Magic |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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