Folk Play Links - Rest of the World
Compiled by Chris Little
Australian Capital Territory
002 -
Creating the Carnivalesque
[Cycle Productions created their Mumming shows for the October long weekend car races in Bathurst]
008 -
Gypsywood Players: St. George Plays
[Texts of two "Christmas Mummings" taken from (a) John Matthews Manly (ed.) Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama, Boston, MA Ginn & Co. 1897, and (b) John Gassner (ed.) Medieval and Tudor Drama, Bantam Books, 1968]
009 -
Agersø Mill
[Hellig Tre Kongersløb - Photo and description of maskers - in Danish]
010 -
Kutri's Korner
[Tiernapojat - Text, scores and illustrations of Finish 'Star Boys' play from Oulu. Cast includes: Herod, King of the Moors, Knihti (Herod's servant), and Mäaut;nkki (Star twirler).]
011 -
Mystica Vannus Iacchi
[by Jane E. Harrison, in
Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol.23, 1903, pp.292-324 - JSTOR subscription required]
020 -
S.Atlantic : Where in the World?
[Photo of Christmas/New Years Celebrations with masked and disquised characters Unidentified location, but the Tristan da Cunha Administrator's house is in the background.]
022 -
The Lonely Island
[by R.A. Rogers, 1926, Chapter 8 - Including a description of New Year mumming i.e. singing and dancing]
024 -
My Life
[by Leon Trotsky, 1930, Chapter II - "Czar Maksimilian" folk play at Yanovka in 1886.]
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Last updated: 24/04/2008