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 web site

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

Frome Valley Morris Men Mummers Play Weymouth, Dorset You Tube

Wessex Morris Men Mummers Play Cerne Abbas, Dorset You Tube

South West

Marshfield Mummers Marshfield, Gloucestershire