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Sound recording, story; a trickster tale, folk tale, outwitting the devil story told by Robin Williamson as part of the programme The Wise and Foolish Tongue, in a mini-festival of stories, Stories of Shifting Truth, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London. 21st February 2004

Story told by Robin Williamson. A drunken farmer has three sons; a vicar, a doctor and a lawyer. The Farmer is lying on his death bed when the devil appears. He is met by the vicar who declares: 'I can beat you at dominoes, I can beat you at dominoes' which stops the devil in his tracks, and he grants the farmer another year of life to repent his sins. The farmer continues to drink. A year later the doctor persuades the devil to give him another years life, by offering to treat his cloven hoof. The farmer continues to drink. A year later the devil meets the Lawyer who has prepared a contract which will release the farmer's soul to the devil, but only once the candle on the table has burnt out, then he snuffs the candle, so that it never burns out. The devil sees the potential in this man and employs him along with every other lawyer in the land. So, when years later the last plumber in Glasgow is sent to hell by mistake, and God threatens to sue if he is not returned to heaven, the devil's response is to ask where he is going to find a lawyer.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 9 minutes, 2 seconds

In 2003, Jillian Barker, Head of Education at the Barbican Centre, London, approached Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, with a proposal to programme regular performance storytelling at the Barbican Centre. Since 2003 the Crick Crack Club has worked in partnership with Barbican Education to programme 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre, for adult audiences. These events are programmed during the three school half terms each year, with usually three evening events per half term. The performances of storytelling are occasionally preceded by pre-show talks. The Pit Theatre is an award winning black box theatre, which seats approximately 180 people (depending on the seating configuration).

storytelling:- storyteller; singer; musician: Robin Williamson
male / Irish


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programming & administration:- programmer; Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty
programmer: The Crick Crack Club
administrator; programmer: The Barbican Centre; Barbican Education


storytelling:- London, England: The Barbican Centre: The Pit Theatre
21 Feb 2004
mini-festival; public performance: Stories of Shifting Truth
Wise and Foolish Tongue, The


gift from:- The Barbican Centre


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