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Pirimus and Physbi

Sound recording, story; Pirimus and Physbi, a literary tale, a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, told using objects, by Jeorg Baesecke and Hedwig Rost, accomapnied by Hedwig Rost on violin, 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.

Introduction by Hedwig Rost. Followed by story told by both artists 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 suitcase a on Jeorg Baesecke's lap.

A King in Athens wishes to marry the Queen of the Amazons. A great wedding feast is arranged in the great park, but during that summer in rains and rains. The wedding and feast are postponed again and again. It rains so hard, because in the land of the fairies there is war - the King of the Fairies and the Queen of the Fairies had gone to war with one another following the discovery that the King of the Fairies had had a love affair with the Queen of the Amazons, and the Queen of the Fairies with the King of Athenes. Meanwhile all the entertainers of Athenes are called on to entertain the bride and bridegroom while they wait. One day the entertainers stage the play of Pirumous and Physbi, as follows. In Mesapotamia, there lived a strong, brave man (Pirumus) and an enchanting girl (Physbi), they fell in love. But sadly their parents were enemies and they built a high wall between the two houses of Physbi and Pirimus. But the lovers found a chink in the wall and spent hours and hours whispering their words of love through the chink. They arranged to meet at the town gate at night. Physbi arrived to meet her love, but out of the bushes came a lion. Physbi fled. Then Pirumous appeared, Physbi is nowhere to be seen, and finding a fragment of her coat and noticing the lion tracks Pirimus is sure she has been killed. Pirimus killed himself. Physbi returned, to find her beloved dead, and in turn killed herself. The King and Queen of the fairies watch the play; are moved to tears and forget their argument. The sun comes out over Athenes and the marriage and feast of the King and Queen of Athenes takes place.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 19 minutes, 9 seconds

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).

storytelling:- storyteller: Jeorg Baesecke
male / German / German, North West / born 07.02.1954

storytelling:- storyteller; musician: Hedwig Rost
female / German / German, West / Bavarian / born 01.05.1959

origin:- playwright: William Shakespeare
storyteller: Jeorg Baesecke
male / German / German, North West / born 07.02.1954
storyteller: Hedwig Rost
female / German / German, West / Bavarian / born 01.05.1959


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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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