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Past Folk Play Performances - Greater London
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Greater London, England
| Date | Group | Time | Venue | Contact |
| Greensleeves Morris Men | 19:30 | Tooting High Street, Trafalgar Arms
[Folk play] |
Alan Jeffries 020 8540 5318 |
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| - | - | 21:30 | London, SW19, Sultan, Norman Road
[Folk play] |
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| The Lion's Part | 12:00 | Bankside
[An autumn harvest celebration beginning outside the Globe theatre. Includes "a tradtional folk wooing play".] |
info@thelionspart.co.uk 020 8928 0404 |
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| East Saxon Sword | 20:00 | Camden, Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park Road
[An updated (as ever) rendition of the Earsdon Sword Play that precedes some blinding rapper. Part of the Carol Concert] |
Colin Messer 020 8894 1537 |
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| Herga Mummers | 12:00 | Eastcote, Case is Altered, High Road
[Herga Mummers have been perfored this play every Boxing Day for almost 30 years. It is rarely performed at any other time. The play is an amalgam of the plays collected in the Eastcote villages of Eastcote, Pinner and Sudbury Hill, now all part of the London Borough of Harrow.] |
Bob Hawkes 07811 321091 |
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| - | - | 12:45 | Pinner, Queens Head, High Street | - |
| - | - | 13:30 | Pinner, [Venue to be confirmed] | - |
| Bankside Mummers | 14:30 | Bankside
[Twelfth Night Celebration from The Lion's Part. It begins outside the Globe theatre and processes to Bankside Jetty. Featuring the traditional ‘freestyle’ folk play of St George featuring the Turkey Sniper, Clever Legs, the Old ‘Oss and many others, dressed in their spectacular ‘guizes’.] |
Tamsin Lewis 020 8928 0404 |
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| Monkseaton Morrismen | 12:00 | Westminster, Trafalgar Square | Andrew Morris 0191 291 2668 |
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| Hammersmith Morris Men | pm | Hammersmith, Andover Arms | Ian Dedic | |
| Herga Mummers | 12:00 | Eastcote, The Case is Altered
[Performing the traditional Middlesex plays for over 30 years. Herga Mummers are rarely seen other than on Boxing Day.] |
Bob Hawkes 07811 321091 |
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| Bankside Mummers | 12:30 | Bankside, Twelfth Night Mummers Play, Outside Shakespeare's Globe
[Twelfth Night. A Celebration of the New Year, featuring: The Holly Man from the Thames, the Bankside Wassails, and the Mummers' Play - a traditional 'freestyle' folk combat play of St. George, featuring the Turkey Sniper, Clever Legs, the Old 'Oss and many others, dressed in their spectacular 'guizes'. Cakes distributed at the end of the play have a Bean and a Pea hidden in two of them. Those who find them are hailed King and Queen for the day and crowned with ceremony.] |
Sonia Ritter 020 8452 3866 / 07736 150225 |
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| The (Insert Name Here) Mummers | 10:00 | Leadenhall Market, The Lamb
[In celebration of St.George's Day. Meeting at The Lamb to find out where they are going and to learn the lines. There's no procession, just a gentle lunchtime perambulation between hostelries.] |
Mick McTiernan 077 646 55752 |
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| - | - | 15:00 | Hackney, Kenton Arms, 38 Kenton Street | - |
| The (Insert Name Here) Mummers | 13:00 | Southwark Bridge, Thrales Rapper Tour, Prince William Henry
[Nov 14th Thrales Rapper 10 Anniversary Bash.] |
Mick McTiernan 020 8640 5898 |
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| Herga Mummers | 12:00 | Eastcote, The Case is Altered | Bob Hawkes 07811 321091 |
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| - | - | 12:45 | Pinner, Queens Head | - |
| Bankside Mummers | 14:15 | Bankside, Shakespeare's Globe to Bankside Jetty
[Twelfth Night. A Celebration of the New Year, featuring: The Holly Man from the Thames, the Bankside Wassails, and the Mummers' Play - a traditional 'freestyle' folk combat play of St. George, featuring the Turkey Sniper, Clever Legs, the Old 'Oss and many others, dressed in their spectacular 'guizes'. Cakes distributed at the end of the play have a Bean and a Pea hidden in two of them. Those who find them are hailed King and Queen for the day and crowned with ceremony.] |
Sonia Ritter 020 8452 3866 / 07736 150225 |
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| Herga Mummers | 12:00 | PInner, Queen's Arms
[St George's Day celebrations] |
Bob Hawkes | |
| The Lion's Part | 12:00 | Bankside, The Globe to Borough Market
[October Plenty - An autumn harvest celebration beginning outside the Globe theatre. Includes a Fastnachtspiel or Nonsensenight play by Hans Sachs.] |
info@thelionspart.co.uk 020 8928 0404 |
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| Hoddesdon Crownsmen | 12:15 | Enfield, King and Tinker
[Hoddesdon Crownsmen perform a version of the Sixpenny Handley mummers' play, as well as rapper sword and step clog dances.] |
Thomas Bending 020 7736 1104 |
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| Bankside Mummers | 14:15 | Bankside, Twelfth Night Mummers Play, Outside Shakespeare's Globe
[Twelfth Night. A Celebration of the New Year, featuring: The Holly Man from the Thames, the Bankside Wassails, and the Mummers' Play - a traditional 'freestyle' folk combat play of St. George, featuring the Turkey Sniper, Clever Legs, the Old 'Oss and many others, dressed in their spectacular 'guizes'. Cakes distributed at the end of the play have a Bean and a Pea hidden in two of them. Those who find them are hailed King and Queen for the day and crowned with ceremony.] |
Sonia Ritter 020 8452 3866 / 07736 150225 |
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| Mad Moll Mummers and Mayers | 12:30 | London E1, Cafe Grill 35 Brick Lane
[The play is titled: 'Teeth will be Provided' and features Mad Moll a character depicted in 19th Century 'Mayer' traditional customs in Hitchin...she returns now with toothache!!] |
Cressida Pryor 01462 673125 |
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| Greensleeves Morris Men | 20:00 | Wimbledon, Leather Bottle, 277 Kingston Road, SW19 3NW
[A performance of the renowned Wimbledon Mummers Play - the acme of wit and biting topical satire. With sword dance.] |
Roy Fenton 020 8879 3527 |
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| - | - | 21:00 | South Wimbledon, The Sultan, Norman Road, SW19 1BN | - |
| - | - | 22:00 | Merton, The Trafalgar, 23 High Path, SW19 2JY | - |
| Greensleeves Morris Men | 12:15 | Wimbledon Village, Rose and Crown, 55 High Street, SW19 5BA
[A performance of the renowned Wimbledon Mummers Play - the acme of wit and biting topical satire. With sword dance.] |
Roy Fenton 020 8879 3527 |
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| - | - | 13:15 | Wimbledon Common, Crooked Billet, 14 Crooked Billet, SW19 4RQ | - |
| Herga Mummers | 12:00 | Eastcote, Case is Altered, High Road | - | |
| - | - | 13:00 | Pinner, Queens Head, High Street | - |
| Bankside Mummers | 14:45 | Bankside, Opposite Shakespeare's Globe
[lfth Night: A Celebration of the New Year mixing ancient seasonal customs with contemporary festivity, with The Holly Man from the Thames, The Bankside Wassails, The Mummers' Play, and King Bean and Queen Pea Cakes.] |
Ritter Sonia 020 8452 3866 |
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