I’ll make this quick, the two long stories I have told most often are both by Simon R Green, an author whose work I have enjoyed immensely. The first book of his I told was “Blood and Honour“, a little gem. Blood and Honour is the story of an out of work actor who has to [...]
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Longer Oral Stories
Posted in oral storytelling, tagged Dogger, Hairy Maclary from donaldson's dairy, kipling, mem fox, oral storytelling, Possum magic, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Shirley Hughes, storytelling, writing on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post is one of a series on oral storytelling. Oral storytelling can, indeed it often does, stop with an audience of young children. This mindset detracts from a rather grand old story telling tradition; but oral storytelling can handle the big stuff. I won’t go into a mild rant over the importance of the [...]
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Posted in oral storytelling, tagged biily goats gruff, fathers, oral storytelling, story, storytelling, writer, writing on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post is one of a series on oral storytelling. I did say I’d come back to this story as an example of oral storytelling. So here we go, this is what I do. Wait a minute, let’s go back to that phrase – “What I do”. This is one way I tell this story, each oral [...]
The Clues and the Sauce – or maybe the sizzle?
Posted in oral storytelling, tagged oral storytelling, story, storytelling, writer, writing on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is one of a series on oral storytelling. The sauce is the way the story is told and this is a biggie. Let’s stick with oral storytelling for a bit longer and dredge up some examples. Stand up comediens – the good ones can read a shopping list and hold an audience. remember Rowan [...]
