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| Sound recording, story; an original tale based on a folk tale and aetiological tale or how and why story from Trinidad, created and told by Grace Hallworth at The Crick Crack Club, at The Chair Theatre, London 20th July 1989 | |
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| Story told by Grace Hallworth. A woodman has a daughter who keeps a bird as a friend. The man re-marries, and the new wife dislikes her stepdaughter. She tries to get rid of the bird, and works the girl hard. One day the girl is left to watch the cooking. The girl forgets the cooking and the bird eats the peppers from the cooking pot. To punish the girl her stepmother ties the girl in a ravine. Water rises in the ravine and drowns the girl, despite her calls and her singing, and the attempts of the bird to fetch help. Since then the bird has been calling three words of the girl's song. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | poor |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 12 minutes, 58 seconds |
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| 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 | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Grace Hallworth female / Trinidadian |
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| origin:- |
storyteller: Grace Hallworth female / Trinidadian Trinidad |
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| Crick Crack Club season flyer | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| 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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