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Bridge of the Sword,
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Romance of Lancelot,
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| a King Arthur story; Mabinogion story | |
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| Sound recording, story; The Bridge of the Sword, from the legends of King Arthur and from the Welsh myth and legend The Mabinogion, told by Katy Cawkwell, in a mini-festival of stories, Herioc Journeys, The Romance of Lancelot, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 16th February 2006. | |
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| Performance in two halves by Katy Cawkwell. The first half tells the story of the birth of Lancelot, his encounter with Gawain, his search for weapons, his love for a women of flowers, his fight with the Red Knight avenging the death of the son of the Lady of the Lake, and his search for his name and his identity. The second half tells of Lancelot's love for King Arthur's Queen Guinevere, his entrapment by another women Elaine, and his journey into the world below, across the bridge of a sword to rescue Guinevere. | |
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| A section of programme note reads - She binds familiar, and little known, Arthurian legend into a gripping tale of Lancelot, love, loss, madness and a journey to the world below. 'There are those who will journey to the land of the dead for the sake of the one they love'. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | incomplete |
| duration:- | 1 hour, 48 minutes, 15 seconds |
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| 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). | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Katy Cawkwell female / British / born 30.04.1975 |
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Britain
Ireland
Wales
Brittany
Celtic |
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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
16 Feb 2006 mini-festival; public performance: Herioc Journeys The Romance of Lancelot |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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