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Monkey Trouble
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Monkey Misery
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| Sound recording, story and saying; Monkey Trouble, a folk tale and proverb from Haiti told by Ben Haggarty, as part of a 'Book Me' educational event at the Barbican Centre, London, 31st May 2006. | |
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| Introduction by Ben Haggarty to the Book Me event, followed by Crick Crack call and response and story told by Ben Haggarty. A story about Monkey who tastes something delicious, which he believes is something called 'trouble', but is in fact honey. Monkey goes on the search for more trouble, a search which finally takes him to Papa God. Papa God gives Monkey a sack with a dog in. The story ends with the saying, 'don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you'. | |
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| Ben Haggarty originally took this story from Diane Wolkstein's book The Magic Organge Tree, in which monkey looks for misery. He later heard the story from Rita Ademokum as part of a story collection project run by the West London Storytelling Unit in the 1980s. Rita referred to monkey searching for trouble and in later tellings of the story by Ben Haggarty, monkey searches for trouble, rather than misery. | |
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| The Book Me event was a two part event run for families at the Barbican Centre London, as part of their educational provision. The event provided storytelling performances and storytelling workshops, where participants learned to retell oral stories, for family audiences. | |
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| audience:- | family |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 12 minutes, 17 seconds |
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| Performing in the Book Me event were Ben Haggarty and Chirine El Ansary. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- | Haiti, Grenada, Caribbean |
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storyteller: Chirine El Ansary
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| programming & administration:- |
administrator; programmer: The Barbican Centre; Barbican
Education |
| storytelling:- |
London, England: The Barbican Centre: The Pit Theatre
31 May 2006 educational event: Book Me |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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