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Fire Bird, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Fire Bird, a Russian wonder tale told by Sally Pomme Clayton 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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| Music by all three performers, followed by story told by Sally Pomme Clayton. A man, Ivan, finds a feather from a firebird and takes it to the King despite the warnings from his horse. This sets off a string of demands from the King. The King demands that Ivan brings him the firebird, then he demands a wife, and then a wedding dress for his wife to be. Ivan does all this with the help of his horse and the contents of its saddle bags. The women brought to be the King's wife then demands that Ivan be boiled alive. Ivan jumps into the pot, which returns him to his youth. The King does the same, which kills him. Ivan marries the women and becomes King. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 16 minutes, 13 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: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| origin:- | Russia |
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administrator: The South Bank Centre |
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London, England: The South Bank Centre
1992 public performance: Midwinter Show |
| gift from:- |
storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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