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| Sound recording, story; a Chinese folk tale, 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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| A story told by Ben Haggarty. A poor couple and a rich couple are neighbours. The poor couple find a peach in the river and from the peach stone hatches a puppy, which they bring up as a child. The dog grows and then begins to talk. The dog takes the couple on a journey to find riches. When the rich neighbours see the poor couple's new wealth, they borrow the dog, which takes them on a journey to find mud and filth. The rich couple kill the dog, but he returns to the poor couple in their dreams, and tells them to make a pestle and mortar from the tree which grows from its grave. The pestle and mortar yields riches and jewels for the poor couple. The rich couple borrow the pestle and mortar and when it produces them more flith and mud, they burn it. The dog appears to the poor couple in their dreams again, and tells them to scatter the ashes of the pestle and mortar from a tree. When they do so, the ashes turn to petals and the supply is ever-lasting. On seeing this, a passing Prince invites the poor couple to live in the grounds of his palace. The rich couple then try to scatter ashes, but no transformation takes place, and they throw ashes into the face of the King who is passing. He punishes them by confiscating their wealth. | |
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| audience:- | family; child; school group |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 12 minutes, 26 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:- | China |
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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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