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THE WEBSITE FOR PERFORMERS AND RESEARCHERS OF MUMMERS', GUISERS' AND OTHER FOLK
PLAYS

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A display of folk play scripts   More >>


WEBSITE UPGRADE, JANUARY 2021

A technical upgrade to Google maps has provided to opportunity to improved the
Folk Play Scripts Explorer and the Atlas.   More >>

Other Recent articles & Blog Posts

 * Review: "Discordant Comicals"
 * Reenacting the Charney Bassett Mummers' Play
 * Updated Nottinghamshire List of Folk Plays
 * Percy Manning Centenary Events
 * Review: "In Comes I", Wantage Mummers
 * Review: "The Jumbies' Playing Ground"


DIRECTORY OF FOLK PLAY GROUPS

This is Master Mummers' comprehensive worldwide database of over 250 performing
groups and their parent organisations. Entries include groups' websites, home
towns, performance schedules, and contact details. You can search by keyword,
and browse by county or group type. Display formats range from simple tabular
lists to comprehensive full records, as well as several options for maps.


FOLK PLAY EVENTS

This is a list of forthcoming performances and tour maps that can be arranged by
group, county or date. You can also search by keyword for groups, places and
venues. All itineraries are archived for research purposes, and can be searched
in the same way. Please notify your folk play events to us. If you wish, you can
then embed your schedules back in your own website along with automatic links to
the tour maps.


ELECTRONIC ERD: AN INDEX TO ENGLISH FOLK DRAMA

Compiled by E.C.Cawte, A.Helm & N.Peacock

This guide lists over 1,500 places where English traditional plays were
performed in Great Britain, Ireland, and overseas, and is backed up with a
bibliography of over 800 references. It is an updated version of the seminal
book English Ritual Drama (ERD), first published in 1967. It includes a new
Introduction, and searching and mapping facilities.


FOLK PLAY SCRIPTS EXPLORER

Working with a database of about 220 texts, the Scripts Explorer lets you:

 1. Find scripts by place
 2. Find lines containing specified words or phrases
 3. View all the variants of a line
 4. See the line in the context of its script, or...
 5. Display the full script
 6. Output interactive Google Maps
 7. Plot outline distribution maps
 8. Compare texts

Folk Play Atlas: Featured Map

Map of places covered by Alan Gailey's analysis of Irish folk play texts.
Click on image for full size map & commentary.


INTERACTIVE FOLK PLAY ATLAS

Maps showing: Times of appearance, Actors' collective names, Play types,
Coverage of collections, Script lines and characters, Text relations,
Performance locations, and more...


NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LIST OF FOLK PLAYS

A comprehensive list of folk plays and Plough Monday customs that were performed
in Nott s and neighbouring districts.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How to perform a folk play, and more...


PHOTOGRAPHS

Selected pictures of folk play performances


POLICIES

Copyright, personal details, funding, etc.


ABOUT MASTER MUMMERS

The website's history, approach, etc.


© 2007-2021, Peter Millington (peter.millington@mastermummers.org). Last
reviewed: 20-Sep-2024
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