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Metamorphoses
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| a Greek Mythology story; Ovid's Metamorphoses story | |
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| Sound recording, story; a section of Metamorphoses, a version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which orginates from Greek mythology, told by Daniel Morden as part of the programme The Tales They Tell, 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, 2nd June 2006. | |
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| Introduction by Ben Haggarty to Daniel Morden, followed by story told by Daniel Morden. Zeus has declared that anyone who approaches a house should be welcomed. Zeus and Poseidon go down into the world to test this. Having been rejected from house after house, they come to a house of an elderly man and women who, despite their poverty, show them the very best hospitality. The two Gods then punish those who had rejected them by flooding the town, and grant the elderly couple with two wishes. They wish for a temple where they can worshp the Gods for the rest of their days, and they wish to die together. They die together and are transformed into two intertwined trees, one an oak and one a linden. | |
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| Born in 43BC, Publius Ovidus Naso, wrote Metamorphoses in Rome, about two thousand years ago. Most of the stories in Ovid's collection are Greek Myths and Legends, but the names of divinities and mortals have been Romanised. In this performance the performers returned the names to their Greek origins. | |
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| Programme note - Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden, Jan Blake, Chirine El Ansary, Pamela Marre, Ben Haggarty and music from Hassan Erraji. To mark our tenth series, we bring together six of the UK's best storytellers for the first time on the Barbican stage. An evening packed with treats and glorious riches, interspersed with the joyful Berber music of British storytelling's long standing friend, Hassan Erraji. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 9 minutes, 43 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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| Performing in the programme The Tales They Tell were Ben Haggarty, Daniel Morden, Jan Blake, Chirine El Ansary and Pamela Marre, with music from Hassan Erraji. Hugh Lupton was programmed to appear, but did not due to a family bereavement. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Daniel Morden male / Welsh / British / born 30.07.1964 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; Master of Ceremonies: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- |
poet: Ovid; Publius Ovidus Naso
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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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| Click to enlarge images | |
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musician; singer: Hassan Erraji
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storyteller: Pamela Marre
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storyteller: Jan Blake
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storyteller: Chirine El Ansary
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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
02 Jun 2006 mini-festival; public performance: A Celebration of Our Tenth Series of Performance The Tales They Tell |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
email to The LCIS