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Land of the Dead, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Land of the Dead, a Haida Myth, of First Nation Canadian origin, told by Ben Haggarty, as part of a performance by The Company of Storytellers at The Madder Market Theatre, Norwich, April 1985. | |
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| Music by The Company of Storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, followed by a story told by Ben Haggarty. A story about a beautfiul women who is taken to be the wife of a man in the land of the dead. With the help of an old women who appears as an owl, she learns to sleep by day and live by night. When she has a child, it is half alive and half dead, and she returns home and instructs her parents to keep the child in the dark for 12 days. Unable to resist looking at their grandchild, the parents take the child into the light, and so banish the women and her child back to the land of the dead forever. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 13 minutes, 49 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, accompanied by musician 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; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| origin:- |
Canada
First Nation Canadian Haida |
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musician: Graham Shimmell
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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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