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| Sound recording, story; an improvised original tale, told at the seventh West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at Common Stock Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 27th November 1983 | |
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| A short improvised story told using objects, by an unidentified storyteller. A story about a princess locked in a tower, who sends out paper darts with messages written on them, asking for someone to let her out. A man finds the letter and offers to help. The princess sets the man a task of setting her free, which involves him taking the princess's magic ring to the edge of the forest without looking at it. The man takes the ring, wrapped in a handkerchief and begins to walk, but he becomes tired, stops in an inn, gets drunk and then pulls the ring from his pocket and looks at it. The princess remains stuck in the tower. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 3 minutes, 17 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 female |
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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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