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| Sound recording, story; a Chinese wonder tale from Tibet told by Daisy Keable at a performance by The Storytelling Unit and guests, entitled Fire and Gold, at the October Gallery, Old Gloucester Street, London, 5th July 1985. | |
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| Introduction by Daisy Keable, followed by story. A story about a young girl who lives with her mother in fear of ogres. The mother leaves the child one day, and she is tricked into letting an ogre into the house. She hides, but gives herself away when she laughs at the ogre's fart. The ogre takes the girl to his cave to eat her. The mother returns home to find her daughter gone. She sets off the rescue her daughter, enlisting the help of a raven, a fox and a wolf. The mother and the three animals succeed in rescuing the girl, but the ogre chases the fox. The fox succeeds in tricking the ogre into thinking that he is not the fox who has stolen the girl, on three occassions, by pretending to be a sand winnower, a glue maker and then a basket weaver. Each time he teaches the ogre his craft, before the chase resumes. On the third occassion the fox pushes the ogre over the edge of a cliff and kills him. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 11 minutes, 17 seconds |
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| Performing in Fire and Gold were Ben Haggarty and Sally Pomme Clayton, who comprised the Storytelling Unit at that time, alongside guests Hugh Lupton, TUUP, Daisy Keable and Roberto Lagnado. Other performers are unidentified. | |
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| The West London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U), was founded in 1981, by members Ben Haggarty, Godfrey Duncan and Daisy Keable and based in an Afro-Caribbean Youth Centre, the Priory in Acton. The members worked together and as solo artists, telling stories mainly in school and community contexts in London. Over time performances for adults also began to be developed. In 1983 W.L.S.T.U became The Storytelling Unit with Marva Cumberbatch, Pomme Clayton, Daisy Keable. In or around 1985 Daisy Keable and Marva Cumberbatch left the Storytelling Unit, at which point Ben Haggarty rejoined 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:- |
storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana
Keable female / British / Norwegian |
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| origin:- | Tibet China |
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| October Gallery publicity | |
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| The Storytelling Unit publicity for Fire and Gold | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| administration:- |
storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
| storytelling:- |
Old Gloucester Street, London, England: The October Gallery
05 Jul 1985 public performance: Fire and Gold |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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