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Little Fox

Sound recording, story; Little Fox, a wonder tale from Scotland told by Sally Pomme Clayton, as part of a performance with the storytelling group which became The Company of Storytellers, at an unidentified venue in East Dereham, Norfolk, April 1985, as part of a tour of East Anglia.

A story told by Sally Pomme Clayton about a princess who is taken as apprentice to a witch who has an ambition to marry her father, the King. The girl is placed under a spell, becomes pregnant, is bannished from the village and gives birth to a lttle fox. The fox fetches food from the King for its mother, and persuades him to arrange a party to which the princess is invited. At the party, the story of the princess is told and the identity of the witch is revealed.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- incomplete
duration:- 0 hours, 10 minutes, 28 seconds

It was during this 1985 tour of East Anglia that The Company of Storytellers was formally formed, with Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton and Hugh Lupton.

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: Sally Pomme Clayton
female / British

origin:- Scotland


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associated:- storyteller: Hugh Lupton


associated:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


associated:- musician: Graham Shimmell


storytelling:- East Dereham, Norfolk, East Anglia, England
Apr 1985
public performance


gift from:- storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton


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