Folk Play Links - Canada
Compiled by Chris Little
Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.
001 *
The Mummers and the Paupers
[by Andrea and Dave Spalding, in
Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, Vol.28 No.3, Sep. 1994, pp.21-23 - Account of reviving English plays in Canada, performing East Harptree text]
The 'Mummering' or 'Jannying' tradition is currently still very active in Newfoundland. There are two 'Mummering' customs - one in which plays are performed, as in Britain & Ireland, and the other involving house-visiting in disguise. It is the latter which predominates today, thanks to the popular 'Mummers' Song' and book by the folk duo Simani.
006 *
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[Change Islands text]
010 *
A Newfoundland Christmas
["Expected Visitors " - a painting of Mummers by Danielle Loranger. Sound files for "The Mummers Song"]
016 *
Any Mummers 'lowed In?
[in
First-Time Readers, Vol.4 No.1, Dec. 1996, p.5 - Mummering at Stag Harbour, Fortune Harbour & Colinet]
023 *
Christmas Pictures
[Includes photos of Mummers in St.Peter's school students' homes in McCallum]
024 *
Court Cases Found In Various Newspapers
[in
Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser, 8th Jan. and 31st Dec. 1862 - Sentences handed out to unlicenced mummers at Harbor Grace - Archived]
032 *
Fools and Mummers
[by Larry Dohey, in
The Monitor, Dec. 2000 - about law prohibiting mummering. [Included a painting by John W. Hayward of mummers in the 1850s.] - Archived]
035 *
History of King's Cove
[by J.T. Lawton and P.K. Devine, 1944, Chap.IV - includes description the Jannies' mummering play]
042 *
Monday, 21st January, 1860
[in
Journal of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland, Second Session of the Seventh General Assembly, 1860, pp.27-28 - law to prevent "mummers" and "fools" appearing in disguise]
043 *
Mummering
[Introduction to Mummering in Newfoundland - with photos]
044 *
Mummering
[Accounts from pupils at St.Bernards School - including a 11.9MB Real video.]
045 *
Mummering - Theatre of Antiquity
[by Michael Rossiter, in
Muse, Vol.49 Iss.11, 27th Nov. 1998 - on the revival of Mummering in Newfoundland through the activities of Chris Brookes - includes photos - Archived]
061 *
Mumming in Newfoundland
[by Ann Marie Powers, in
World and I, Dec. 1988 - Subscription required for the full online article.]
071 *
Purity - Syrup
[served when the costumed "Mummers" come 'round at Christmas]
074 *
Some Recollections
[by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, 1918, pp.25-27 - "Fools" at St John's & Mummers fragment, 1851]
076 *
The Mummers
[by Loreen Adams-Haldenby, in
Downhomer, Dec. 1999 - Mummering at Milton - Archived]
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