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Orange Tree, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Orange Tree, a Caribbean folk tale, told by Marian Oughton as part of Storytelling in the Cafe, in The First International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, London, 30th January 1985 | |
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| Crick crack call and response, followed by a story told by Marian Oughton. A story about an orphaned girl who is mistreated by her cousin. The cousin goes to market one day, forbidding the girl to eat the oranges left in the bowl on the table. The girl eats the oranges, takes the pips to her mother's grave and plants a tree which grows, fruits and flowers as she sings to it. Her cousin returns and realises that something is wrong, but the girl kills her, with the help of the orange tree on her mother's grave. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | incomplete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 19 seconds |
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| 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. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Marian Oughton female / British |
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| origin:- | Haiti, Caribbean |
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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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| Click to enlarge images | |
| programming:- |
Festival Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty |
| storytelling:- |
Lavender Hill, London, England: Battersea Arts Centre
30 Jan 1985 festival: The First International Storytelling Festival Storytelling in the Cafe |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Marian Oughton |
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