Folk Play Links - Folk Plays in Other Works
Compiled by Chris Little
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Optimism's Flames
[Interview with Andy Partridge of XTC regarding their album 'Mummer', including an illustrated discussion of costumes and costume making.]
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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy. MDCCCXXXVIII. The Seventieth.
[1838, pp.27-28, 61 - 'Merry Christmas in the Baron's Hall' , by Daniel Maclise [- now in the National Gallery of Ireland -] citation of
Christmas Revels: An Epic Rhapsody in Twelve Duans, by Alfred Croquis [Daniel Maclise], in
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol.XVII No.CI, May 1838, p.638]
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Tom Cullivan
[
Breffny Ballet incorporates a traditional mummers play]
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Down by the Greenwood Side
[Booklet for sale: by Harrison Birtwhistle, 1969 - Michael Nyman based his libretto on the "Normalized text" in
The English Folk-Play, by E.K. Chambers, 1933]
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Western Canada Theatre
[Photos and cast for performances of 'Scrooge Meets the Mummers' at the Sagebrush Theatre, 28th Nov. - 7th Dec. 2002]
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Eyam
[Passing reference to Derby Tup play in dramatisation of the story of the Eyam plague village]
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Wonderbolt Productions
[The Sights Before Christmas' written and performed by Beni Malone, with classic English folk play characters.]
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