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Willie's Wood
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| Sound recording, story; Willie's Wood, a Scottish wonder tale told by Hugh Lupton, as part of a performance by The Company of Storytellers at The Madder Market Theatre, Norwich, April 1985. | |
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| Introduction by Hugh Lupton to The Company of Storytellers, and an invitation to the audience to tell a story at the end of the show; followed by story. Willie goes into the wood to find a piece of wood to mend his boat. He is invited into the cottage of three old hags, where he spends the night. During the night the three hags use magic green caps to transport themselves to London, for a night out. Willie follows them, joins them in their drinking and dining, but is left there to pay the bill. Unable to pay, Willie finds himself on the gallows, waiting to be hung. Willie tricks the hangman into letting him put on his magic green cap, and transports himself, and the gallows tree, back home. Willie finds that the wood of the gallows tree is just what he needed to mend his boat. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 11 minutes, 15 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, accompanied by musician named Graham Shimmell. This was the first public performance of The Company of Storytellers; it was on this tour in Norwich that the name for the group was decided upon. The tape on which the performance was recorded is marked 'a very good show', by one of the storytellers. | |
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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:- | Scotland |
| associated:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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| associated:- |
musician: Graham Shimmell
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton
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| administration:- |
administrator: The Company of Storytellers |
| storytelling:- |
Norwich, Norfolk, England: The Madder Market Theatre
Apr 1985 public performance |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Hugh Lupton |
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