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| Sound recording, story; a wonder tale and transformation tale told, possibly, by Bo Keable, at the seventh West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at Common Stock Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 27th November 1983 | |
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| Story told by Bo Keable. A farmer has three sons. His corn fields are being attacked by night, so in turn, each son guards the field in an attempt to solve the mystery. The first two sons encounter a talking toad who offers to help them, but who they ignore and send away. The third son, the youngest, accepts the help of the toad and shares his meal with him. To return his kindness the toad offers to grant the youngest son whatever he wishes. The youngest son wishes for a beautiful girl to fall in love with, a beautiful home and to live happily ever after. The toad and the youngest son continue to watch the field. A bird appears and begins to eat the corn. The toad begins to sing and the bird is transformed into a beautiful girl, who the youngest son falls in love with. They return home to find a beautiful home and there the toad, the beautiful women and the youngest son live together. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 6 minutes, 59 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: Bo Keable male / British |
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| Images of clubnight events at Common Stock Theatre | |
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| White master-copy of flyer for clubnight 6, clubnight 7 and clubnight 8. | |
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| Green version of flyer for clubnight 6, clubnight 7 and clubnight 8. | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| administration:- |
storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
| storytelling:- |
Hammersmith, London, England: Common Stock Theatre
27 Nov 1983 storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 7 |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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