Folk Play Links - Sussex, England

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.


Groups

001 * Andy Anderson [2001 report, with photos, about Stane Street Morris]
002 * Ashdown Mummers (/Ashdown Forest Morris Men) [perform Compton text; photos; programme]
003 * Bloodstone Arts [script]
004 * Broadwood Morris Men [perform Horsham text; photo; programme]
005 * Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men [perform Steyning text; photos; programme]
006 * Chichester Folk Song Club [perform alternating texts - annual Tipteers play; photo; programme]
007 * Ditchling Mummers / Ditchling Morris [video; programme]
008 * Hammingden Tipteerers [photos; programme]
009 * Hunters Moon Morris [programme]
010 * Lewes Saturday Folk Club [perform Chithurst text - annual mummers play]
011 * Merrie England Mummers (/Merrie England Folk Song Club) [perform many texts; photos; programme]
012 * RATCO Mummers [photo; programme]
013 * Rottingdean Mummers [perform Rottingdean text; programme]
014 * Section 5 [photos]
015 * Sompting Village Morris [perform Sompting text; programme]
016 * Union Jack Mummers [photos; programme]

Libraries & Archives

017 * Sussex Archaeology & Folklore [Large compilation of texts of Sussex Tipteerers' plays with an extensive introduction to the county's plays]

Publications

018 * A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect [by Rev W.D. Parish [Vicar of Selmeston], 1875, p.122 - entry for 'Tip-teerers'; pp.136-137 - Selmeston text [variation of Tenby, Pembrokeshire text]]
019 * Boys Perform a Mummers Play [in Children's Newspaper, No.1760, 13th Dec. 1952, p.8 - Chailey fragment]
020 * Christmas Customs in Sussex [by Frederick E. Sawyer, in Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. Vol.VIII No.208, 22nd Dec. 1883, pp.483-484 - Sompting text; citation of A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, by Rev W.D. Parish, 1875, pp.136-137]
021 * Christmas Mummers [by William Holloway, in his Scenes of Youth; or Rural Recollections; With Other Poems, 1803, pp.63-65]
022 * Extract from the Letter of Another Correspondent [by J. E., in Examiner, No.523, 5th Jan. 1818, p.3 - "tipteerers" at village near the coast]
023 * FTX-238 - Come All You Bold Britons : The Copper Family - 1 [CD for sale: Audio of Mummers' song and about Rottingdean Mummers in 1896]
024 * Highways and Byways in Sussex [2nd printing] [by E.V. Lucas, 1904, pp.424-425 - paraphrasing Boger below]
025 * International Theatre Exhibition : Designs and Models for the Modern Stage [[1922], p.30 - 'Sussex Mummers in the Home-made Costumes, decorated with rags and coloured paper, worn in the old folk-play, King George and the Turkish Knight, by Isabel Horn']
026 * Memoir of the Rev Henry Francis Cary [by Rev Henry Cary [his son], 1847, Vol.II p.22 - "Tipteerers" at Littlehampton, 1817]
027 * Reading, Writing, and Riot [internet version] [by R.W. Standing, 1998, pp.5-6 - Tipteers at East Preston]
028 * Records of the Heath Family [extract from George Heath, 1913, p.58 - at Milland House, Milland - with the [Tenby, Pembrokshire text?] character Oliver Cromwell]
029 * Short History of East Preston and Kingston [internet version?] [by R.W. Standing, 2004 - East Preston & Boxgrove texts - Archived]
030 * Sussex "Tipteerers'" Play [by Frederick E. Sawyer, in Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.II No.1, Jan. 1884, pp.1-8 - citation of A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, by Rev W.D. Parish, 1875, p.122 - entry for 'Tip-teerers' / pp.136-137 - Selmeston text; Hastings fragment; at Hollington; Steyning text; Sompting fragment; Brighton fragment]
031 * Sussex : Melancholy Circumstance [in Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle and General Advertiser for Hants, Sussex, Surrey, Dorset, Vol.22 No.1160, 31st Dec. 1821, p.4c - "Tip Teering" from Chichester seen at Westhampnett, Walberton & Goodwood - Subscription required for Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers]
032 * Sussex Folk-Lore and Customs Connected with the Seasons [citation of Frederick Ernest Sawyer, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol.XXXIII, 1883, pp.255 - [Brighton ?] fragment; 256 - "Tip-teers" or "Tip-teerers" at Shoreham, Southwick & Portslade; at Bramber; at Furze Hill - citation of Parish]
033 * Sussex Folk-Lore and Customs Connected with the Seasons [by Frederick Ernest Sawyer, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol.XXXIII, 1883, pp.255 - [Brighton ?] fragment; 256 - "Tip-teers" or "Tip-teerers" at Shoreham, Southwick & Portslade; at Bramber; at Furze Hill - citation of Parish]
034 * The Christmas Play of "The Seven Champions" [by S. Arnott, in Notes & Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.X No.260, 21st Dec. 1878, p.489 - Hollington text; extract from article, by Dr Rimbault, in Bow Bells, Christmas No., 1869; (extract from Life of Scott, ed. by Lockhart)]
035 * The Lady Victoria Tylney Long Wellesley : A Memoir [by Her Eldest God-Daughter [Octavia Barry], 1899, pp.143-144 - mummers (carollers ?) at West Stoke House, West Stoke]
036 * The Play Acted by the “Tipteers” at West Wittering, Chichester [by James I.C. Boger, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol.XLIV, 1901, pp.178-183 - text]
037 * The Play Acted by the “Tipteers” at West Wittering, Chichester [citation of James I.C. Boger, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol.XLIV, 1901, pp.178-183 - text]
038 * The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill [4th impression] [ed. by Ralph Nevill [her son], 1906, pp.77, 75 - mummers at Dangstein, Terwick]
039 * The Seven Champions of Christendom [by Frederick E. Sawyer, in Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. Vol.VIII No.199, 20th Oct. 1883, p.309 - collected three texts - citation of The Seven Champions of Christendome, by J. K. [John Kirke], 1638]
040 * The Story of Shoreham [by Henry Cheal, 1921, pp.255-256]
041 * Tipteerer [by A.O.V. P. [Edward Peacock], in Notes and Queries, 4th Ser. Vol.III No.58, 6th Feb. 1869, p.128 - "tipteerers" - (citation of A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, - [Hampshire];) Memoir of the Rev Henry Francis Cary, by Rev Henry Cary [his son], 1847, Vol.II p.22]
042 * Tip-Teerers [by Charles F.S. Warren, in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.I No.4, 24th Jan. 1874, p.68 - at Midhurst]

[General]

043 * Cross and Country' Event [School performance, including lengthy footnotes on photos of the Boxgrove mummers in the 1930s. - Archived]
044 * Cross and Country' Event [Photos and costume & of Boxgrove Tipteers, 1930s via contacts - Archived]
045 * Root & Branch Theatre Company

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