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Sound recording, story; an original tale told
at the fifth West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at Common
Stock Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 30th October 1983
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A story told by an unidentified storyteller,
about the news of the invention of central heating being bought
to the land of perpetual winter. The King sends his knights out
looking for central heating. All these knights know is that they
are seeking something called central heating and that it keeps
them warm. The King's daughter leaves to live with a dragon whose
firey breath keeps her warm. One of the knights try to take the
dragon to the castle, but is killed, and the King's daughter and
the dragon live happily ever after.
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The story references King Arthur and his
Knights of the Round Table.
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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, 11 minutes, 33 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:-
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storyteller
male / Norwegian
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Images of clubnight events at Common Stock Theatre
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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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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: Common Stock Theatre
30 Oct 1983
storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight
storytelling club: Clubnight 5
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gift from:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007