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Blue Deer, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Blue Deer, an adapted version of a European wonder tale, transformation and riddling tale, told by Ben Haggarty 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 a story told by Ben Haggarty. A story of sex-change and transformation from human to animal and of riddles to gain a bride's hand in marriage. A hunter jumps over a blue deer lying dead in the forest and turns into a women. She marries a King and is married and has a child. A series of further changes occur with the women turning from women to mare, from mare to bitch, from bitch back to hunter- all the time watching over the husband and son, until the son becomes King. The hunter helps find the King (his son) a wife, by telling three lies that are not lies, all relating to his previous incarnations. | |
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| Ben Haggarty has added the element of the Green Man into this story. It is an adpated verison of a traditional tale. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 18 minutes, 32 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: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| origin:- | Europe |
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| administration:- |
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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