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| a Jack Tale story | |
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| Sound recording, story and song; a wonder tale and Jack tale from Irish Romani culture, told by Hugh Lupton, 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. | |
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| Introduction to the story by Hugh Lupton, mouth music ('diddling'), by The Company of Storytellers, followed by a story told by Hugh Lupton and music played by Graham Shimmell. Jack leaves home to seek his fortune. He shares his food with a bird who gives Jack a feather to tie around his waist with which he can summon help. Jack uses the feather to summon magical powers (a sword of sharpness; the strength, wits and speed of one hundred men; a cloak of darkness and a stead of swiftness) which help him fight three giants and kill a dragon which is demanding to eat the princess of a nearby city. In defeating the dragon Jack wins the hand of the King's daughter in marriage. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 32 minutes, 36 seconds |
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| 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. | |
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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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| storytelling; singing:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
storyteller; singer: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
storyteller; singer: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
storyteller; singer: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
musician: Graham Shimmell male |
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| origin:- |
Ireland
Romani; Gypsy |
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| storytelling; singing:- |
East Dereham, Norfolk, East Anglia, England
Apr 1985 public performance |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton |
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