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How Billy Didn't Buy his
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| Sound recording, story; How Billy Didn't Buy his Trousers, an original tale told as a true life tale, told at at the ninth West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight entitled The Feast of Heart's Tongue, at Common Stock Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 19th February 1984 | |
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| Story told by an unidentified storyteller, about how a man on unemployment benefit saves up to buy a new pair of trousers, but on the day that he plans to go shopping, he becomes distracted and realises that he has always wanted to be a bank robber. He and his friends rob a bank, but are eventually caught and jailed. The story is set in 1970s or 1980s Britain. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 11 minutes, 3 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 The clubnights were superseded by the formation of the Company of Storytellers who pioneered the touring of adult evening shows throughout the UK, and by the formation of the Crick Crack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 male |
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| origin:- |
Britain
1970s; 1980s |
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| Images of clubnight events at Common Stock Theatre | |
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| administration:- |
storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
| storytelling:- |
Hammersmith, London, England: Common Stock Theatre
19 Feb 1984 storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 9 The Feast of Heart's Tongue |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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