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Language of Signs, The
Other Eye, The
a Magic Ointment story

Sound recording, talk; The Language of Signs, a paper written by Daniel Morden and read by Hugh Lupton, and story The Other Eye, a folk tale and tale of fairies, told by Hugh Lupton, as part of the Crick Crack Club conference, Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival , Hoxton Hall, London, 3rd February 2002.

A talk delivered by Hugh Lupton, including comments on the role of metaphor and imagery in story; the nature of comment by the storyteller, and the interpretation of story. Followed by a story told by Hugh Lupton. The talk is delivered by Hugh Lupton in the place of Daniel Morden who was unavoidably absent from the conference.

Programme notes: The Crick Crack Club presents the richest and most entertaining performance storytelling events in Britain. These are stories for adults, taking you into the extraordinary, and sometimes uncomfortable, world of unbowdlerised Fairytale and Myth. Pioneers of the Storytelling revival reflect on 20 years at the front-line of active intervention to revive and rediscover this primal narrative art.

The conference comprises R539, R540, R541, R542, R543, R544, R545, R456, R547, R548.

audience:- adult; Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival conference delegates
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 36 minutes, 23 seconds

The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was the first regular performance storytelling club to be established in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty. It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987 and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001. During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In 1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St. Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from 1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre

talk; storytelling:- speaker; storyteller: Hugh Lupton
male / British / English / Welsh / occupation performance storyteller

origin:- storyteller: Daniel Morden
male / Welsh / British / born 30.07.1964
Wales, Britain


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Hoxton Hall publicity

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associated:- author: Daniel Morden


administration:- administrator: The Crick Crack Club


programming:- Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty


talk; storytelling:- London, England: Hoxton Hall
03 Feb 2002
conference: Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival


gift from:- The Crick Crack Club


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