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an Indian Mythology story

Sound recording, story; a wonder tale and outwitting death story, from India, told by Sally Pomme Clayton, as part of a performance A Ladder to the Moon, by The Company of Storytellers, at A Bit Crack storytelling club The Cumberland Arms, Byker, New Castle Upon Tyne, 3rd February 2006

Story told by Sally Pomme Clayton. A beautiful women, Savitri, is tasked with finding her equal as a husband. She finds a man who is destined to die in a year and a day. She marries and her husband dies as expected. The women follows the death back to his world. He offers her a four wishes, except the resurrection of her husband, and she tricks death into giving her back her husband, giving half of her life to him.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration 15 minutes, 12 seconds:-

The Company of Storytellers at this 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.

storytelling:- storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers

storytelling:- storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton
female / British

origin:- India
Hindu


associated:- storyteller: Hugh Lupton


associated:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


administration:- administrator: A Bit Crack


storytelling:- Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cumberland Arms
03 Feb 2006
storytelling club: A Bit Crack
A Ladder to the Moon


gift from:- storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers


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