Folk Play Links - United States of America

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.

California

001 * California Revels, Oakland [Revels often include a mumming play]
002 * FFL Morris
003 * Guild of Saint Cuthbert [Pageant group, whose titles include "St.George and the Dragon"]
004 * Mayfield Mummers / Mayfield Morris & Sword [programme]
005 * Starlight Circle Players [The Ring' Upcoming Production]
006 * Zumwinkle family [Photo of children's performance with cast list.]

Colorado

007 * Pueblo Community College [List with 1999 performance and pictures & video]
008 * Rocky Mountain Revels, Boulder [Revels often include a mumming play]
009 * Winter Solabration, Denver [A contemporary mummers play with regional references. Script available on request.]

District of Columbia

010 * Foggy Bottom Morris Men
011 * Washington Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]

Georgia

012 * Gateway Performance Productions
013 * Valdosta State University [was Georgia State Women's College]

Illinois

014 * Central Illinois English Country Dancers
015 * Charleston Alley Theatre presents St.George and the Dragon at Christmastide [photos]
016 * Revels Chicago [Revels often include a mumming play]

Indiana

017 * Huddleston Farmhouse Inn Museum: Christmas on the Farm [Annual mummers play]

Kentucky

018 * A Piece of Mummers' Play Acting [citation of Appalachian Heritage, Fall 1978, pp.37-42]
019 * CCDS at Berea College [Course programme - Mummers Play class led by John Mayberry]

Maine

020 * Belfast Maskers [List with 1987 performance of St. George and the Dragon - Archived]

Maryland

021 * Saint James School [photos]

Massachusetts

022 * An Old Gentleman's Recollections [by H.E. Scudder, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol.54 No.324, May. 1877, pp.826-827 - extract from Recollections of Samuel Breck,, ed. by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1877, pp.35-36 - Boston fragment]
023 * Banbury Cross Morris & Sword
024 * Cambridge Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]
025 * Christmas Maskings in Boston [by W.W. Newell, in Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol.IX No.XXXIV, Jul.-Sep. 1896, p.178 - Boston fragment]
026 * Concord Players [photos; cast list]
027 * First Parish in Brookline, Unitarian Universalist [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
028 * First Parish of Sudbury, Unitarian-Universalist [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
029 * First Parish Unitarian Universal, Stow and Acton [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
030 * First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
031 * Lynn Noel
032 * Paper Bag Mummers [photo; programme; scripts]
033 * Recollections of Samuel Breck with passages from his note-books (1771-1862) [ed. by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1877, pp.35-36 - Boston fragment]
034 * Simmons College [Photos. From 1921, entertainments included skit of the story of Saint George and the Dragon - i.e. a mumming play]
035 * St George Mumming Play [by Albert Matthews, in Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.26, 24th Jun. 1916, p.515 - citation of An English Christmas Play, by Antoinette Taylor, in Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol.XXII No.86, Oct.-Dec. 1909, pp.389-394]
036 * That Long Tall Sword
037 * Welcome Yule [Sometime performers of mummers play]

Michigan

038 * Center for Spiral Learning [photo]
039 * Hole in the Bog Morris & Mummers [programme]
040 * Mumming with Hole-in-the-Bog [by Fred Fuller, in American Morris Newsletter, Vol.14 No.1, Mar./Apr. 1990, pp.16-20]
041 * St Ignace LaSalle High School Drama Club [Photos of A Renaissance Celebration to Drive the Dark Away 1998 & 1999 - including mumming plays and morris dancers]

Minnesota

042 * Hamline University Theatre [List with 1957 performance]
043 * St Cloud State University's Theater Department [Director's list with 1991 performance]
044 * Uptown-on-Calhoun Morris MidWinter Ale

Nevada

045 * Virginia City Theatre Muckers [photos]

New Hampshire

046 * Revels North, Hanover [Revels often include a mumming play]

New York

047 * Bassett Street Hounds [photos]
048 * First Unitarian Society of Schenectady [photos]
049 * Half Moon Sword Sword Ale
050 * Heartwood Morris
051 * Hoosac School [photos]
052 * Ithaca Unitarian Church [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
053 * Long Island Traditional Music Association : Solstice Celebration [Annual mummers play]
054 * Medicine Show Theatre [List with 1978-79, 1998-99 & 2002-03 performances]
055 * New York Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]
056 * The Midway Caravan

Ohio

057 * Johnston Farm: Christmas on the Farm [Annual mummers play]
058 * StoneCreed Grove, ADF: Druid Yule Wassailing Songbook ["The Tale of Old Christmas" an unadapted but unidentified traditional play text]

Oregon

059 * Portland Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]

Pennsylvania

060 * A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819 [by Thomas Nuttall, 1821, p.135 - Quapaw indian custom likened to "our Christmas mummers" - Author lived in Philadelphia]
061 * Bryn Mawr College [Annual May Day Robin Hood play]
062 * History of Philadelphia : 1609 1884 [by J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, 1884, pp.934-936 Vol.II - fragment]
063 * Notes of a Desultory Reader [by Anon [Alexander Graydon], in Port Folio, Ser.3 Vol.II No.1, Jul. 1813, p.61 - [Philadelphia] fragment]
064 * Pennsbury Manor: Holly Night [Annual mummers play]
065 * Philadelphia Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]

Rhode Island

066 * Jamestown Community Chorus [List with 1997 & 2002 performances]

Tennessee

067 * Lark in the Morn [perform Greatham text]

Texas

068 * An introduction to medieval mummers' play and St. George [Austin College, Texas - Links include an unlocated text taken from John Gassner (ed.) Medieval and Tudor Drama, Bantam Books, 1963]
069 * Men of Houston Morris Dancers

Vermont

070 * Colchester High School Theatre Company [List with 1995-96 performance of "St. George and the Dragon"]
071 * Mummers to perform dances this weekend [in Brattleboro Reformer, 31st Oct. 2003 - about Green Mountain Mummers]

Virginia

072 * First Unitarian Church of Richmond [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
073 * Flying Bark Morris
074 * Mount Vernon Unitarian Church [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
075 * Richmond Theatre Fire - December 26, 1811 [by ?, in Richmond Times Dispatch?, ? ? 1937]
076 * Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]

Washington

077 * Puget Sound Revels, Tacoma [Revels often include a mumming play]

West Virginia

078 * Philip Zimmermann [Photo of Rude Mechanicals]
079 * Rude Mechanicals [Director's list with 1999 & 2000 folk play performances]

Wisconsin

080 * Mumming In the Midwest [by Donald E. Thompson & Rachel Popowich, in Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol.35 No.1, Dec. 1988, pp.29-33]

[General]

081 * Nowell Sing We Clear [Sometime performers of mummers play]
082 * Revels [The parent organization of the Revels, puts on the Cambridge Revels, always includes a mummers play. Site includes photos. The Revels have companies in 12 locations across the United States.]
083 * The Ancient Art and History of Mummery
084 * The Mummers' Dance [by Loreena McKennitt]
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