Past Folk Play Performances - Greater London

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Greater London, England

Date Group Time Venue Contact
21 Dec 01
Greensleeves Morris Men 19:30 Tooting High Street, Trafalgar Arms
[Folk play]
Alan Jeffries
020 8540 5318
- - 21:30 London, SW19, Sultan, Norman Road
[Folk play]
-
20 Oct 02
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
15 Dec 02
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
26 Dec 02
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
- - 12:45 Pinner, Queens Head, High Street -
- - 13:30 Pinner, [Venue to be confirmed] -
05 Jan 03
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
10 May 03
Monkseaton Morrismen 12:00 Westminster, Trafalgar Square Andrew Morris
0191 291 2668
16 Dec 03
Hammersmith Morris Men pm Hammersmith, Andover Arms Ian Dedic
26 Dec 03
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
04 Jan 04
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
23 Apr 04
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
- - 15:00 Hackney, Kenton Arms, 38 Kenton Street -
14 Nov 04
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
26 Dec 04
Herga Mummers 12:00 Eastcote, The Case is Altered Bob Hawkes
07811 321091
- - 12:45 Pinner, Queens Head -
03 Jan 05
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
23 Apr 05
Herga Mummers 12:00 PInner, Queen's Arms
[St George's Day celebrations]
Bob Hawkes
23 Oct 05
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
01 Jan 06
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
02 Jan 06
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
08 Jan 06
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
15 Dec 06
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
- - 21:00 South Wimbledon, The Sultan, Norman Road, SW19 1BN -
- - 22:00 Merton, The Trafalgar, 23 High Path, SW19 2JY -
26 Dec 06
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
- - 13:15 Wimbledon Common, Crooked Billet, 14 Crooked Billet, SW19 4RQ -
26 Dec 06 Herga Mummers 12:00 Eastcote, Case is Altered, High Road -
- - 13:00 Pinner, Queens Head, High Street -
06 Jan 07
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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