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Five Lovers, The
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Sound recording, story; The Five Lovers a
version of a folk tale and trickster tale from the epic cycle
known as 1001 Nights, or The Arabian Nights or Sheherazade's
Tales, told by TUUP, a member of the West London Storytelling
Unit, at the second West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at
The Last Chance Centre, Hammersmith, London, 19th May
1983
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Story told by TUUP. A story about a women who
takes a lover whilst her husband is away. When the lover is put
into jail for fighting, the women tricks a magistrate, a judge,
the prime minister, the King and a carpenter into helping her in
return for promises of sex. The lover is released and the other
men are locked in a cupboard and humiliated. The story is
followed by closing comments from Ben Haggarty.
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audience:-
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adult; contributing storytellers
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recording quality
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condition:-
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fair
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 18 minutes, 11 seconds
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The West London Storytelling Unit Clubnights or The Storytelling
Unit Clubnights were begun by Ben Haggarty, TUUP and Daisy Keable
in 1982 shortly after beginning to work together as the West
London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U). They took place on roughly
a fortnightly basis during the atumn and winter months, in
community centres in Acton, Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith. The
clubnights were an opportunity for anyone to come and tell a
story, or perform music on the condition that it had a toe-hold
in tradition. The performance of original poetry and the reading
of original writing was actively discouraged as there were plenty
of other fora for 'new writing' elsewhere in London. In 2007 Ben
Haggarty explained that the clubnight format was in part inspired
by the College of Storytellers, but with the aim of doing
something less bourgeois, for a younger audience and which was
not dominated by Idries Shah's mission to promote his vision of
Sufi storytelling. The clubnights also took inspiration from the
anarchy of the London Musicians Collective clubnight events in
Camden. The clubnights led Ben Haggarty to inaugurate the First
UK International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre
in London in January 1985. After the 1985 festival a few further
clubnights were run, before ending in 1986. The clubnights were
superseded by the formation of the Company of Storytellers who
pioneered the touring of adult evening shows throughout the UK,
and by the formation of the Crick Crack Club in 1987, which
focused on the programming and development of professional
storytellers, their performance skills and their repertoire for
adult audiences.
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The West London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U), was founded in
1981, by members Ben Haggarty, Godfrey Duncan and Daisy Keable
and based in an Afro-Caribbean Youth Centre, the Priory in Acton.
The members worked together and as solo artists, telling stories
mainly in school and community contexts in London. Over time
performances for adults also began to be developed. In 1983
W.L.S.T.U became The Storytelling Unit with Marva Cumberbatch,
Pomme Clayton, Daisy Keable. In or around 1985 Daisy Keable and
Marva Cumberbatch left the Storytelling Unit, at which point Ben
Haggarty rejoined and worked with Sally Pomme Clayton for a brief
period before the group was disbanded. The increased interest and
demand for storytelling performance for adults led to the
formation of The Company of Storytellers in 1985.
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storytelling:-
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storyteller; musician; singer: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
male / British / Guyanese / member of the West London
Storytelling Unit
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origin:-
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Middle East
Arab world
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White version of flyer for clubnight 2
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Blue version of flyer for clubnight 2
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Clubnight letter written my members of The West London
Storytelling Unit
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Letter written to Time Out listings magazine about listing the
clubnight
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Click to enlarge images
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administration:-
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty
storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable
storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
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storytelling:-
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Hammersmith, London, England: The Last Chance Centre
19 May 1983
storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight
storytelling club: Clubnight 2
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gift from:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007