Drama
category editor Dr Eddie Cass
Room, Room, Brave Gallants, Give us Room to Sport!
.....for in this place we do resort
to bring you information on the spectacle that is the Mummers Play, plus any other form of traditional street drama.
Your first stop in any study of this form of drama must be the Traditional Drama Research Group whose web site is hosted by the EFDSS. The site is full of pictures and information about plays all over the world.
Plays performed now
North East
Long Company Ripponden. West Yorkshire
Midgley Pace Egg Calder Valley. West Yorkshire
Heptonstall Pace Egg Heptonstall, Calder Valley. West Yorkshire
Bradshaw Mummers Bradford area, West Yorkshire
Byker Mummers Newcastle on Tyne [You Tube
South West
Marshfield Mummers Marshfield, Gloucestershire