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Troll with No Heart,
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| Sound recording, story, The Troll with No Heart, a Norwegian wonder tale and creation myth, told by Hugh Lupton, in a performance by The Company of Storytellers, at the Third International Storytelling Festival, in The Purcell Room at the The South Bank Centre, London, 22nd November 1989. | |
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| Music by all three performers, followed by story told by Hugh Lupton. In Norway there lives a famer with 12 sons. The 11 eldest sons are sent to find their fortune. They meet a King with 11 daughters; they each marry and continue on their travels and their adventures. They come to a crystal mountain where a troll lives. The troll turns the 11 couples into rock. When the youngest son comes of age he seeks out his brothers. On his journey the boy feeds a hungry crow, saves a floundering salmon, and feeds an old wolf his horse. All the animals promise to assist him if he ever needs help. The boy asks the wolf to carry him. He takes him to the troll's cave. There he finds a girl, who tells him that if he finds the heart of the troll he will find his brothers. The troll eventually tells the girl that his heart lies in the middle of the ocean, on a island, down a well and in the egg of a bird which lives there. The boy reaches the island, but frightens away the bird. So he calls on the crow, who flies through the sky and pierces the bird to release the egg. The egg falls towards the ocean, so the boy calls on the salmon to catch the egg. Once the boy has the troll's heart he squeezes it and forces the troll to release the brothers and their wives. The boy then cracks the troll's heart, shattering the troll and the crystal mountain. All the pieces rise up into the sky, forming the moon and stars. | |
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| The story is followed by the interval break which is announced with Ben Haggarty promoting the Company of Storyteller's tape for sale - Mid-Winter Tales. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair; poor |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 22 minutes, 41 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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| Having directed the First International Storytelling festival at Battersea Arts Centre in 1985 and the Second International Storytelling Festival at Watermans Arts Centre in 1987, Ben Haggarty was approached by Ruth McKenzie and the poet Joe Shapcott to Direct a third festival in the series. In 1989 The Third International Storytelling Festival took place at The Southbank Centre, London, and ran for 15 days from 11th to the 25th November. It also had an extensive national touring component that took storytellers to 12 regional venues. The Arts Council subsidised it with a £10,000 grant. The Festival management was undertaken by an agency called the Arts Business. The whole event was under the aegis of the Literature Department, (Lead Officer, Maura Dooley). The festival programme included performances for adult audiences, and school sessions. It was in response to the programming needs for this festival that Ben Haggarty founded and launched the Crick Crack Club, to provide a place where UK based storytellers could develop their repertoire and performance skills for adult audiences. | |
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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: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| origin:- | Norway Scandinavia |
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| biography for Ben Haggarty printed in festival programme | |
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| biography for Sally Pomme Clayton printed in festival programme | |
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| biography for Hugh Lupton printed in festival programme | |
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| festival poster | |
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| festival programme front cover | |
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| festival programme page 1 showing staff list | |
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| festival programme page 2 showing acknowledgments | |
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| festival programme page 4 showing quite from Heinrich Zimmer | |
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| festival programme page 5 showing introduction | |
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| festival programme page 6 showing image | |
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| festival programme pages 7 to 12 showing interview with Peter Brook | |
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| festival programme page 13 showing advertisment | |
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| festival programme page 14 showing list of regional events associated with the festival | |
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| festival programmes pages 15 to 24 showing artist biographies | |
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| festival programme page 25 showing advertisments | |
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| festival programme page 26 showing a reading list | |
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| festival programme page 27 showing an advertisment for 'Word of Mouth' a Channel 4 Television programme about storytelling in the UK | |
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| festival programme page 28 showing advertisment and a quote from C.S Lewis | |
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| festival programme back cover showing an Irish saying or poem. | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| programming & administration:- |
programmer; Festival Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty administrator: The Arts Business administrator: Alan Giddings administrator: Richard Crosslands production manager: Eddy Smith production assistant: Hugh Lupton production assistant: Sally Pomme Clayton production assistant: Tom O'Reilly production assistant: Daniel Morden |
| storytelling:- |
London, England: The South Bank Centre: The Purcell Room
22 Nov 1989 festival: The Third International Storytelling Festival festival: The 1989 International Storytelling Festival |
| gift from:- |
storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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