Folk Play Links - Worcestershire, 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 * Alvechurch Morris [photo; programme]
002 * Bromsgrove Mummers (/ Avoncroft Folk Dance Group) [no longer performing] [photos; script]
003 * Foxs Morris [photos; programme]
004 * Mummers to Tour the Pubs [in Cotswold Journal, 1st Dec. 2005 - about Red-Light Company]
005 * Paescod [Archived]
006 * Wedding of Emma & Wakefield, 2nd May 1999 [Photo of Paescod]
007 * Wyre Mummers / Fox's Morris [photos; programme]

Publications

008 * Alex Helm Collection. [Ref. Vol.16/2, pp.251-252v] [extract with letter from W. Taylor to Keith Holland on mummers at Shrawley before 1878-1880]
009 * An English Christmas Play [by Antoinette Taylor, in Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol.XXII No.86, Oct.-Dec. 1909, pp.389-394 - Broadway text; note by G.L. Kittredge - extract from Recollections of Samuel Breck with passages from his note-books (1771-1862), ed. by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1877, pp.35-36 - Boston fragment]
010 * Modern Mumming [by Cuthbert Bede [Rev Edward Bradley], in Notes and Queries:, Ser.2 Vol.XI No.275, 6th Apr. 1861, pp.271-272 - Upper & Lower Howsell text]
011 * Worcestershire [by Leonard J. Wills, 1911, p.133 - mummers at Alvechurch - [author born at Barnt Green]]
012 * Worcestershire Mummers [citation of Charles Cattermole, in Illustrated London News, Vol.34 No.955, 15th Jan. 1859, pp.70, 72 - engraving]

[General]

013 * Bishampton Barnstormers [Amateur drama group. Past performances include 'Last Tango in Little Grimley. A Dragon for Dinner. A Mummers Play', 1999 ]
014 * Nelson's Column - The Mummers: 'Exit, pursued by a Bear' [Description of Tewkesbury Mummers and proposals for a performance from the Ashton Players]
015 * St George triumphs in Ashton under Hill! [photo and report of the Ashton Players' Mummers' play performed St.George's Day 2003 and at the Dumbledon Fete, August 2003]
016 * www.Badsey.net [Photo of Badsey Mummers, circa 1950]

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