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Sound recording, story; a dilemma story, told by Grace Hallworth at The Crick Crack Club, at The Chair Theatre, London 20th July 1989

Story told by Grace Hallworth posing a dilemma which is disucssed by members of the audience. Three sons travel into the world, one finds a mirror which shows everything happening in the world; the second finds a pair of sandals which will transport who-ever stands in them to any part of the world, and the third has a medicine which cures any illness. They look in the mirror, see their father being buried; use the sandals to travel to him and the medicine to bring him back to life. The dilemma is which son should receive the father's reward?

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- poor
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 3 minutes, 58 seconds

The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was the first regular performance storytelling club to be established in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty. It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987 and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001. During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In 1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St. Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from 1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre

storytelling:- storyteller: Grace Hallworth
female / Trinidadian


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Crick Crack Club season flyer

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administration & programming:- administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club
administrator; programmer; Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty


storytelling:- Ladbroke Grove, London, England: The Chair Theatre: Kensington Park Pub
20 Jul 1989
storytelling club: The Crick Crack Club
public performance: Grace Hallworth at The Crick Crack Club


gift from:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


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