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D55 31700 | 12 hours |
Human beings have been telling stories ever since they began to evolve. Even before language developed they would find ways to share events and responses to events that they had experienced. Language broadened the range of what the stories could describe. Humanity is a communal animal and communication underlies our social existence. Knowledge is built on the accumulation of communication. The building blocks of communication lie in the collective memories of diverse streams of humanity, the more sharing af those collectives the more the species advances. At the bottom of it all are stories, the ways we have of explaining the universe around us and our place in it.
As a storyteller who is also a theatre artist, Brian Richardson recognises that same development and expansion of storytelling as being reflected in the theatre, from mime to complex verbal and visual imagery. The course will offer an examination of storytelling as an ancient craft with a focus on the remarkable flexibility of oral tradition. Structure and construction will accompany discussion and demonstration of wide variety of stories and forms. Whether folk tale,history (past and in the making), journalism, poetry, or humour, storytelling still has a vital role in the present. Class aim is to offer the pleasures of listening to and telling of stories and to encourage the inner storyteller of the attendees.