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Old Crow is Dead, The
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What News?
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Sound recording, story; The Old Crow is Dead
or What News?, an English folk tale told by Daisy Keable a member
of The Storytelling Unit, at the High Summer Storytelling
Clubnight, in the Garden of No. 4 Shaa Road, Acton, London, 21st
July 1984
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Story told by Daisy Keable. A story about a
King who returns home to discover his that his entire life is in
ruin, through a series of cause and consequence, which has
culminated in the death of the Old Crow.
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audience:-
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adult; contributing storytellers
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recording quality
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condition:-
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fair
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completeness:-
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incomplete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 2 minutes, 6 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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The Storytelling Unit was born out of the West London
Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U) in 1983, with members Marva
Cumberbatch, Pomme Clayton and Daisy Keable. In or around 1985
Daisy Keable and Marva Cumberbatch left the Storytelling Unit, at
which point Ben Haggarty, (who had been a member of the
W.L.S.T.U) joined and worked with Sally Pomme Clayton for a brief
period before the group was disbanded. The increased interest and
demand for storytelling performance for adults led to the
formation of The Company of Storytellers in 1985.
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana
Keable
female / British / Norwegian / member of the Storytelling Unit
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origin:-
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England
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Flyer for the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight
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Flyer for the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight
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Click to enlarge images
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administration:-
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty
storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable
storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
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storytelling:-
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Shaa Road, 4, Acton, London, England
21 Jul 1984
storytelling club: Storytelling Unit Clubnight
storytelling club: High Summer Storytelling Clubnight
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gift from:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007