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| Sound recording, story; an outwitting the devil story and folk tale from Poland told at the fifteenth Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at an unidentified venue, London, 1984 | |
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| A story told by an unidentified storyteller. A man makes a deal with the devil that he will be granted eternal life and anything else he desires, provided that he never enters Rome. If he is found in Rome, then he can choose three conditions for the devil to meet before he dies. The man asks to be handsome and gains a beautiful wife who is a terrible nag. One day the man is drunk and to avoid going home to his wife, he continues to drink from pub to pub. He goes into the Rome Tavern and the devil appears. He sets the devil three tasks to complete. The devil completes two of them, but refuses to meet the third condition, which is to live with the man's wife for a year. The man leaves the pub, but is so drunk that a gust of wind blows him back inside. This time the devil wastes no time, kills the man, and sits him on the crescent moon, where he can still be seen today. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
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| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 9 minutes, 12 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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| origin:- | Poland |
| administration:- |
storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
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London, England
1984 storytelling club: Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 15 |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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