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WOSAS/CD392/track3 R1295.wav |
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Balder the Beautiful
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| a Norse Mythology story | |
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| Sound recording, story; Balder the Beautiful, from Norse mythology, 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 to the gods and goddesses and other charcters who appear in the story - Odin and his wife Frigg, and their twin sons Balder the Beautiful and Hodder the Blind, Thor, Heimdall and Loki followed by a story told by Hugh Lupton. Balder dreams of his own death. Frigg, his mother makes all the gods, all the humans and all the elements of the world promise that they will not hurt Balder, and Balder becomes immune to the danger of death. Loki finds out from Frigg that the only plant she did not make promise not to hurt Balder was the mistletoe. Loki finds the mistletoe plant, nurtures it and carves an arrow from it. He then helps Blind Hodder to kill Balder with the arrow of mistletoe. The Queen of the Dead agrees to return Balder if the whole world weeps for him. Odin and Frigg send out the command, but Loki refuses to weep for Balder. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 36 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: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| origin:- | Norway Scandinavia |
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musician: Graham Shimmell
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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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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