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Tom Tit Tot
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| Sound recording, story; Tom Tit Tot, a tale of fairies and folk tale, an English version of Rumpelstiltskin, told by Hugh Lupton, in the programme Midwinter Show, performed by The Company of Storytellers, at The South Bank Centre, London, on the 15th December 1992 | |
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| Introduction by Ben Haggarty to the programm and a recountabout a previous show where Hugh Lupton pointed out that at any storytelling event the storytellers on the stage out-number the audience - referring to the millions of voices who have shaped the material before it is told by themselves. | |
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| Music by all three performers, followed by story. A girl is married to the King provided that in the twelth month of every year she spins 5 scanes of flax a day. Unable to spin, the girl is helped by an imp. The imp agrees to help her, but the girl is tasked with trying to guess the imp's name, to avoid being taken by him at the end of the month as payment for his services. The girl fails to guess until the last day of the month, when her husband tells her about overhearing the imp singing whilst he was out hunting. The girl saves herself and the imp dissappears. The girl still can't spin, and after the next 11 months have passed, the girl asks her mother to help. Her mother tricks the King into banning his wife from ever spinning again. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 24 minutes, 22 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:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- | England |
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| administration:- |
administrator: The South Bank Centre |
| storytelling:- |
London, England: The South Bank Centre
1992 public performance: Midwinter Show |
| gift from:- |
storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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