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Boy who Borrowed Bread from Death,
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| Sound recording, story; The Boy who Borrowed Bread from Death, a folk tale and outwitting death story from Sweden, told using objects by Jeorg Baesecke and Hedwig Rost, 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. | |
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| Introduction to story by Jeorg Baesecke with commentary that this story has been told by a famous Swedish storyteller, a Gyspy King; followed by story told by both artists, accompanied on violin by Hedwig Roast and illustrated and acted out using objects on The Smallest Stage in the World, 'Die Kleinste Buhne der Welt', a stage which is opened out from a suitcase on Jeorg Baesecke's lap. | |
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| A poor widower lives with his son. The widower falls ill. One winter night the widower sleeps and grows weaker and weaker. Concerned, the boys thinks that if he could crunch some schnickerbrot (hard bread), then perhaps the noise would wake his father and he would eat something and gain strength. The boy finds no bread in the house, and none of the neighbours will give him any. Just as he is about to return home he sees a distant house. Here he finds an old man sharpening a scythe. He asks why he is sharpening his scythe in winter; 'My harvets ripens in summer and in winter' is the reply. The man (death) gives the boy some bread and they return together to the Widowers house. The boys crunches the bread, but the widower does not wake. The boy asks the man to crunch the bread. So wonderful is the taste of the bread that, as death crunches, he does not notice that the sand in the hourglass of the widower has run out and he misses the moment to strike with his scythe. Slowly the widower wakes up to the crunching of bread, takes some and eats. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 11 minutes, 22 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: Jeorg Baesecke male / German / German, North West / born 07.02.1954 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hedwig Rost female / German / German, West / Bavarian / born 01.05.1959 |
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| origin:- |
Sweden
Romani; Gypsy |
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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
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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