Friday, September 19, 2014

18th September Ringwood

Pete Gritton was our able master of ceremonies, as we explored Riches and Poverty with a reduced complement of actual storytellers. Mike Rogers began with The Two Hunchbacks, their different reactions to the Fairies, and the different rewards they received. [This page gives a song about the first, and a tale about the pair http://www.irishpage.com/songs/donalcam.htm, while the song itself can be heard here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VLq3Hed0U .
Graham Rogers continued, by transposing Little Master Misery from Arthur Ransome's Old Peter's Russian Tales into the Lea Valley and Canning Town, prefacing it with a prehistoric tale of ritual bog-drowning on what sounded awfully like Canvey Island.
Madeleine Grantham told us two tales of Nasruddin: The Trip to the Bath-House, where a big tip for poor service on the first visit produces good service on the second, for which the attendants receive the no-tip-at-all they deserved for the way they behaved the first time. In her second tale, Nasruddin pays for the sausage whose smell he has enjoyed by letting its demanding seller hear the sound of his money!
Pete's contribution to the tales was an account of Sam Hookey, “the Wicked Man of Wick”, which you can recapture here.
Graham told a tale from the repertoire of Hugh Lupton and Taffy Thomas, The King of the Fishes, the Devil, and the Magic Cow, and Mike finished off with Little Claus and Big Claus from Hans Christian Andersen.




No comments:

Post a Comment