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| a Jack Tale story | |
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| Sound recording, story; a folk tale, lying tale and Jack tale from Europe, 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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| Music by all three performers, followed by story told by Hugh Lupton. Jack and his brothers have no food, but decide to light a fire anyway. They each in turn ask an old bee keeper for a light. The Bee Keeper asks for a song, a dance or a story in return. The first two brothers are unable to respond and the bee keeper refuses them fire, and takes a strip of skin from each of their backs. Then Jack asks the beekeeper for a light. He agrees to tell the beekeeper a story, on the condition that if the beekeeper calls him a liar, he will take 3 strips of skin from his back. Jack tells a tall tale full of impossibilties. The beekeeper listens. Jack tricks him into calling him a liar. Jack takes three strips of skin from the beekeeper's back and he and his brothers cook it as soup. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 1 second |
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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:- | Europe |
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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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