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Cow Tail Switch, The
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| Sound recording, story; a version of The Cow Tail Switch, a wonder tale and moral tale from West Africa, told by Hugh Lupton, 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 | |
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| A story of resurrection told by Hugh Lupton. A great hunter disappears, leaving his family and pregnant wife. They forget about the hunter until the new child is born and asks for her father. The sons then search for their father, find his bones and bring him back to life. On his return, the hunter carves the most beautiful sculpture for the one who saved his life - the child who remembered him. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration 6 minutes, 45seconds:- | |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. | |
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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: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| origin:- | Africa, West |
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton
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| administration:- |
administrator: A Bit Crack |
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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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