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Fire Bird, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Fire Bird, a wonder tale from Russia, told by Hugh Lupton as part of the programme May Eve, performed by The Company of Storytellers, at Norwich library, as part of Norfolk Library and Information Service Storytelling Festival in 1994 | |
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| Music by all three performers, followed by story told by Hugh Lupton. Ignoring warnings from his magical horse, a hunter finds a feather from a firebird and takes it to the King. This sets off a string of demands from the King. The King demands that the hunter brings him the firebird, then he demands a girl as his wife, and then a wedding dress for the girl. The hunter provides all, with the help of his horse. The girl then demands that the hunter be boiled alive. The hunter jumps into the pot of boiling water, which returns him to his youth. Seeing this, the King does the same and dies. The hunter marries the girl and becomes King. The firebird is released. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 23 minutes, 8 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
musician; storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
musician; storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| origin:- | Russia |
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administrator: Norfolk Library and Information Service |
| storytelling:- |
Norwich, Norfolk, England: Norwich Library
1994 festival: Norfolk Library and Information Service Storytelling Festival May Eve |
| gift from:- |
storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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