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Sound recording, story; a folk tale and cumulative tale from Egypt, told as part of The Grand Storytelling Festival Celebration, at The First International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, London, 2nd February 1985

A story about blame, and cause and consequence told by an unidentified storyteller. A thief breaks his leg when the window of the merchant's house he is climbing though falls out. He goes to a judge and blames the merchant; the merchant blames the builder; who blames a beautiful women walking past who distracted him; who blames a dress maker; who blames the person who dyed the cloth. The dyer of the cloth does not defend himself, but when he is taken to the gallows, he is found to be too tall to hang.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- fair; poor
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 8 minutes, 5 seconds

The First International Storytelling Festival took place at Battersea Arts Centre, (Venue Director Jude Kelly) London, in 1985, and was the first international festival of storytelling held in the UK. It ran for 7 days, from Monday Jan 28th to Sunday Feb 3rd. The festival was initiated and directed by Ben Haggarty who had been involved in running the West London Storytelling unit and Storytelling Unit Clubnights since 1982/1983. It was funded by a guarantee against loss from the GLC. The festival programmed included performances for adult audiences, talks and lectures, school sessions, a festival 'clubnight' and a teacher's conference on Storytelling in Education.

storytelling:- storyteller
female / Egyptian

origin:- Egypt


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Festival poster

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festival flyer front cover

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festival flyer showing introduction

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festival flyer showing festival timetable

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festival flyer full page spread showing artists biographies

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festival flyer back cover showing booking and access details for the festival advertisments and acknowledgments

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additional festival flyer in orginal format ready for photcopying

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programming:- Festival Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty


storytelling:- Lavender Hill, London, England: Battersea Arts Centre
02 Feb 1985
festival: The First International Storytelling Festival
The Grand Storytelling Festival Celebration
The Festival Clubnight


gift from:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


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