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| Sound recording, story and puzzle; an original tale and reminiscence combined with a dilemma story or puzzle told by Ben Haggarty as part of a programme Lost in the Forest of Bells, part of the Unicorn Theatre Storytelling Season, programmed by the Crick Crack Club, at the Unicorn Theatre, London, 8th February 2007. | |
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| Introduction to the show by Ben Haggarty in Foyer of Theatre, followed by audience entering the theatre, and short story and puzzle told by Ben Haggarty about dreaming about tigers and knowing when to wake up. | |
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| audience:- | family; child; school group |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 8 minutes, 41 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: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| Images of the Forest of Bells set in the Unicorn Theatre | |
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| Images of the Ben Haggarty in rehearsal on the Forest of Bells set in the Unicorn Theatre | |
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| programming:- |
programmer: The Crick Crack Club programmer: Ben Haggarty |
| storytelling:- |
Tooley Street, London, England: The Unicorn Theatre
08 Feb 2007 public performance: Lost in the Forest of Bells public performance: The Unicorn Theatre Storytelling Season |
| performance recording from:- |
archivist: Kate Norgate |
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