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Sound recording, story; a wonder tale and dilemma story told by TUUP as part of the programme The Dynamics of Love, in a mini-festival of stories, Feasting in the House of Story - A Celebration of Our Tenth Series of Performance Storytelling, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 31st May 2006.

Introduction by Ben Haggarty followed by music and story told by TUUP, and culminating in final words from Ben Haggarty to close the evening's performance. A story about a women who marries and moves away from her family. When her father becomes ill, her brother comes to her and asks her to pay him a visit. The women, her husband and brother set off on a journey. On the way they come to a shrine in a cave. One by one, the husband and brother enter the cave to pray, and become so taken by their devotion that they both kill themselves. On discovering this, the women decides to also take her own life, but she hears a voice which instructs her to go into the cave and place the heads of her brother and husband back on their bodies. She does so and the two men are resurrected, but when they exit the cave into the light, she finds that she has placed the wrong head on the wrong body. The dilemma is, who should she give her love to?

Programme note - Five great storytellers delight in exploring the many sides of the inevitable, incomparable, inescapable, inexplicable theme...LOVE.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 19 minutes, 14 seconds

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).

Performing in the programme The Dynamics of Love were Ben Haggarty, Jan Blake, Pamela Marre, TUUP and Chirine El Ansary

storytelling:- storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
male / British / Guyanese

storytelling:- storyteller; Master of Ceremonies: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958


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A book create as part of the celebratory event, which was presented to all audience members who attended. All storytellers who had appeared at the Barbican were invited to contribute a story to the book.

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associated:- storyteller: Chirine El Ansary


associated:- storyteller: Pamela Marre


associated:- storyteller: Jan Blake


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
31 May 2006
mini-festival; public performance: A Celebration of Our Tenth Series of Performance
The Dynamics of Love


gift from:- The Barbican Centre


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