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One Eye, Two Eyes, Three
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| Sound recording, story; One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes, a wonder tale from Germany collected by the Brothers Grimm, told by Verena Keable, at the fourth West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at Common Stock Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 16th October 1983 | |
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| Story told by Verena Keable, about three sisters, one of whom has one eye, one two eyes and the other three eyes. Two Eyes is bullied by her mother and sisters. She is sent out without food to tend the goat. Two Eyes is taught to conjure up food by an old women. Her sisters discover her secret and kill the goat, and with it her ability to conjure food. On the old women's advice, Two Eyes buries the goat's entrails. A tree grows from the entrails, with silver apples, which only Two Eyes can pick. The tree catches the attention of a passer by, who marries Two Eyes. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 14 minutes, 7 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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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Verena Keable female / British |
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| origin:- |
folklorist: The Brothers Grimm
folklorist: Jakob Grimm folklorist: Wilhelm Grimm Germany, Europe |
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| Images of clubnight events at Common Stock Theatre | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 and clubnight 5 | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 and clubnight 5 | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 and clubnight 5 | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 and clubnight 5 | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 and clubnight 5 | |
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| Flyer for clubnight 4 and clubnight 5 | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
| storytelling:- |
Hammersmith, London, England: Common Stock Theatre
16 Oct 1983 storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 4 |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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