Folk Play Links - United States of America

Compiled by Chris Little



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 Morris & Sword
005 - Zumwinkle family [Photo of children's performance with cast list.]

Colorado

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

District of Columbia

009 - Foggy Bottom Morris Men
010 - Washington Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]

Georgia

011 - Gateway Performance Productions
012 - Valdosta State University [?]

Illinois

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

Indiana

016 - Huddleston Farmhouse Inn Museum: Christmas on the Farm [Annual mummers play]

Kentucky

017 - CCDS at Berea College [Course programme - Mummers Play class led by John Mayberry]

Maine

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

Maryland

019 - Saint James School [photos]

Massachusetts

020 - An Old Gentleman's Recollections [extract from Recollections of Samuel Breck, 1877 - Boston fragment]
021 - Banbury Cross Morris & Sword
022 - Cambridge Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]
023 - Concord Players [photos; cast list]
024 - First Parish in Brookline, Unitarian Universalist [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
025 - First Parish of Sudbury, Unitarian-Universalist [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
026 - First Parish Unitarian Universal, Stow and Acton [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
027 - First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
028 - Lynn Noel
029 - Mummers Come-All-Ye! [Appeal for players for a Boston-area traditional drama troupe. Includes photos and links from this website.]
030 - Recollections of Samuel Breck, with passages from his note-books (1771-1862) [ed. by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1877, pp.35-36]
031 - Simmons College Libraries: Archives: Olde English Dinner [Photos. From 1921, entertainments included skit of the story of Saint George and the Dragon - i.e. a mumming play]
032 - That Long Tall Sword
033 - Welcome Yule [Sometime performers of mummers play]

Michigan

034 - Center for Spiral Learning [photo]
035 - Hole in the Bog Morris & Mummers [programme]
036 - Mumming with Hole-in-the-Bog [by Fred Fuller, in American Morris Newsletter, Vol.14 No.1, Mar./Apr. 1990, pp.16-20]New
037 - 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

038 - Hamline University Theatre [List with 1957 performance]
039 - St Cloud State University's Theater Department [Director's list with 1991 performance]
040 - Uptown-on-Calhoun Morris MidWinter Ale

Nevada

041 - Virginia City Theatre Muckers [photos]

New Hampshire

042 - Revels North, Hanover [Revels often include a mumming play]

New York

043 - Bassett Street Hounds [photos]
044 - First Unitarian Society of Schenectady [photos]
045 - Half Moon Sword Sword Ale
046 - Heartwood Morris
047 - Hoosac School [photos]
048 - Ithaca Unitarian Church [Usually mummers play for a special service in Winter]
049 - Medicine Show Theatre [List with 1978-79, 1998-99 & 2002-03 performances]
050 - New York Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]
051 - The Midway Caravan

Ohio

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

Oregon

054 - Portland Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]

Pennsylvania

055 - Bryn Mawr College [Including a May Day Robin Hood Play]
056 - Bryn Mawr College [Includes May Day 1924 play of St.George]
057 - Nuttall's Journal of travels into the Arkansa territory October 2, 1818-February 18, 1820 [by Thomas Nuttall, 1821, p.135 - Quapaw indian custom likened to "our Christmas mummers"; Nuttall lived in Philadelphia]
058 - Pennsbury Manor: Holly Night [Annual mummers play]
059 - Philadelphia Revels [Revels often include a mumming play]

Philadelphia Mummers' Parade

060 - British Pathe New
061 - Philadelphia New Year's Shooters and Mummers Association
062 - Strut! [The Movie]

Rhode Island

063 - Jamestown Community Chorus [List with 1997 & 2002 performances]

Tennessee

064 - Lark in the Morn [perform Greatham text]

Texas

065 - 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]

Vermont

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

Virginia

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

Washington

073 - Puget Sound Revels, Tacoma [Revels often include a mumming play]

West Virginia

074 - ? [Photo of Rude Mechanicals]
075 - Rude Mechanicals [Director's list with 1999 & 2000 folk play performances]

[General]

076 - Nowell Sing We Clear [Sometime performers of mummers play]
077 - 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.]
078 - The Ancient Art and History of Mummery
079 - The Mummers' Dance [by Loreena McKennitt]

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