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Yama and Savitri
an Indian Mythology story; Hindu Mythology story; Mahabharata story

Sound recording, story; Yama and Savitri an extract from the epic the Mahabharata from Hindu and Indian mythology, told by Sally Pomme Clayton as part of a performance by The Company of Storytellers, at Cheltenham Literature Festival in The Town Hall, Cheltenham, 12th October 1987.

Percussion played by The Company of Storytellers followed by a story told by Sally Pomme Clayton. A King prays to the goddess Savitri for a son. He is granted a daughter, who is named Savitri after the goddess. She grows up and marries a poor man who is her equal, but who is destined to die in one year. When Yama, the Lord of Death appears to take her husband, Savitri accompanies him on his journey to the land of the dead, and persuades him to give her husband half of her own life. The story is followed by music and closing statements by Ben Haggarty.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 14 minutes, 29 seconds

The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton.

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.

storytelling:- storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers

storytelling:- storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton
female / British

storytelling:- storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton
male / British / English / Welsh

storytelling:- storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958

origin:- India
Hindu


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storytelling:- Cheltenham, England: The Town Hall
12 Oct 1987
festival: Cheltenham Literature Festival


gift from:- storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers


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