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| a Baba Yaga story | |
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| Sound recording, story; a Russian wonder tale and Baba Yaga story group, told by Ben Haggarty as part of a private performance by The Company of Storytellers at Bundles Barn, Hertfordshire, on an unidentified date during the 1990s. | |
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| Music played by The Company of Storytellers, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty. A witch befriends a Queen and makes her promise that she will ask her son to only marry the women whose finger fits a ring which she gives him. When the Queen dies, her son vows to keep the promise, but finds that only his own sister's finger fits the ring. The brother insists that his sister marry him. The sister takes the advice of three beggar women, and makes straw dolls, which prevent her brother from entering her room and which open up the earth to swallow her inside. The sister finds herself in Baba Yaga's house, where she befriends Baba Yaga's daughter. The sister and Baba Yaga's daughter escape from Baba Yaga and return to the world above, where the look exactly alike. The brother tricks them into revealing which of them is his sister, but on finding that the ring also fits the finger of Baba Yaga's daughter, he marries her instead. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair; poor |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 19 minutes, 8 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised 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:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| origin:- | Russia |
| storytelling:- |
Hertfordshire, England: Bundles Barn
about 1990s private performance |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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