Folk Play Links - Wales / Cymru

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.

Carmarthenshire

001 * Jeremy McNeill [Actor's résumé, including performance with Dolwilym Mummers in 1981-1982]

Flintshire

002 * Clerical Error [photo]
003 * Clerical Error [unofficial] [photos; scripts]

Glamorgan

004 * Crwmpyn John [citation of Bryan Harris, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.2 No.5, 1974, pp.396-399 - Ynysmeudwy text]
005 * Crwmpyn John [extract from Bryan Harris, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.2 No.5, 1974, pp.396-399 - Ynysmeudwy text]
006 * FTX-055 - Coalminer's Pitances : Music & Memories of Welsh Miners [CD for sale: Audio of Mummers Play at Treorchy, 18th Dec. 1953]
007 * I Open this Door and Enter in... A forgotten Rhondda tradition is brought back to life [by Mick Tems, in Taplas, No.85, Dec. 1997, p.14 - Llwynypia text]
008 * Little England Beyond Wales [extract from Edward Laws, 1888 - West Gower text - itself extract from A History of West Gower Glamorganshire [Pt.II], by J.D. Davies [Rector of Cheriton and Llanmadoc], 1879, pp.85-86]
009 * Llancaiach Fawr Manor: A Stuart Christmas [Annual mummers play]
010 * Mummer's Play [index to Godfrey, in Gower, Vol.XXXVI, 1985, pp.36-46 - Killay text]
011 * My Gower [extract from Tucker, in Gower, Vol.?, 1957]
012 * Stanley Smith Collection [extracts with Dunvant x2; Mumbles; Llanmorlais texts]
013 * The Christmas Sport in Killay [extract from Godfrey, in Gower, Vol.XXXVI, 1985, pp.36-46 - Killay text]
014 * Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection [extract with Aberdare text]

Monmouthshire

015 * Christmas in Monmouthshire [by A.E. Lawson Lowe, in Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. Vol.IX No.211, 12th Jan. 1884, p.24 - at ?]
016 * Isca Mummers / Isca Morrismen [photos; programme; scripts]
017 * Mumming" in Monmouthshire [in Western Mail, No.4880, 2nd Jan. 1885 - unlocated fragment - Subscription required for Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers]
018 * Obituary : F. J. Browne [by David H. Patey, in British Medical Journal, ii : No.5357, 7th Sep. 1963, p.629b - Abertillery fragment]
019 * Obituary : F. J. Browne [by Charles Seeley, in British Medical Journal, ii : No.5359, 21st Sep. 1963, p.754b - at Abertillery]
020 * The Chepstow Mumming Play [Script of Isca Morrismen]

Pembrokeshire

021 * Chambers's Book of Days [US edition] [ed. by R. Chambers, 1879, Vol.II pp.739-741 - Woodcut caricature of "A Party of Mummers", and Tenby text]
022 * Christmas Mummers [by Middle Templar [James Cruikshank Roger], in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.III No.71, 8th May 1875, p.378 - citation of Tales and Traditions of Tenby, 1858, pp.34-38 - see below]
023 * Christmas Mummers [by Middle Templar [James Cruikshank Roger], in Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.V No.108, 22nd Jan. 1876, p.75]
024 * Elizabeth Anne Galton (1808-1906): A Well-connected Gentlewoman [Book for sale: ed. by Andrew Moilliet, 2003 - mummers at Tenby]
025 * Little England Beyond Wales [extract from Edward Laws, 1888 - Tenby text - itself extract from Tales and Traditions of Tenby, comp. & ed. by G.P.W. Scott, 1858 - itself extract from The Book of Days, ed. by R. Chambers, Vol.II, 1864, pp.739-741]
026 * Manners and Customs of the People of Tenby in the Eighteenth Century [by L.P. Barnaschone, in Cambrian Journal, Vol.4, 1857, pp.193-195 - text]
027 * The Book of Days [? edition] [ed. by R. Chambers, 1869, Vol.II - Woodcut caricature of "A Party of Mummers", and Tenby text]

[General]

028 * Mick Tems Archive [many texts - Llwynypia, Godre'rgraig, Gower]
029 * Russell Wortley Collection [extract with ? text]
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