England
London
East Saxon Sword [Website]
Category:
Sword Dance Group
Home Town:
Plaistow, Grid Ref.: TQ4070, Lat.& Long.: 51.4156, 0.0207
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Colin Messer (cmesser@ukonline.co.uk), Phone: 020 8894 1537
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Greensleeves Morris Men [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Merton, Grid Ref.: TQ2569, Lat.& Long.: 51.4101, -0.1953
Description:
The renowned Wimbledon Mummers Play - a blend of traditional elements, biting contemporary satire and a few jokes. Includes sword dance.
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (3), 2002 (2), 2003 (2), 2004 (2), 2005 (4), 2006 (2), 2008 (1), 2009 (2), 2010 (2)
Media Links:
1. Greensleeves Morris Men Boxing Day tour, December 2008 - Validated link
flickr - Photo(s)
[25 images], Jenny Neal, 26-Dec-2008
Contact:
Roy Fenton (rfenton@rfenton.demon.co.uk), Phone: 020 8879 3527
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Hammersmith Morris Men [Website]
Category:
Dancers who perform Plays
Home Town:
Hammersmith, Grid Ref.: TQ2279, Lat.& Long.: 51.5007, -0.2349
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2004 (3), 2005 (1), 2010 (2), 2012 (3)
Media Links:
1. Hammersmith Mumming 23 dec 2008 - Validated link
flickr - Photo(s)
[26 images], Mick McTiernan, 23-Dec-2008
Notes:
Performers of the Smiffs' Mumming Play
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Smiffs' Mumming Play [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Hammersmith, Grid Ref.: TQ2279, Lat.& Long.: 51.5007, -0.2349
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (3), 2003 (4)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Ian Dedic (ian.and.hilda@dedics.co.uk)
Part of:
Hammersmith Morris Men
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The (Insert Name Here) Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Morden, Grid Ref.: TQ2567, Lat.& Long.: 51.3950, -0.1945
Description:
Based in SW London, still one play only, St George, at the moment (2010) in spite of solemn and binding promises made by certain members, who shall remain nameless, that they have another play almost written; promises that they have been making for the last three years but who's counting? The current play is cobbled together from various other plays, stealing the best lines from anywhere we could!
Established:
2000
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (2), 2002 (2), 2003 (6), 2004 (7), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1)
Media Links:
1. Carshalton "I no longer know or care if it's Boxing Day or not" Tourette. 27 Dec 2010 - Unverified link
flickr - Photo(s)
[46], Jenny Neal, 28-Dec-2010
2. The (Insert Name Here) Mummers Nov 2010 - Unverified link
flickr - Photo(s)
[11 photos], Mick McTiernan, 07-Dec-2010
3. The (INH)Mummers Carshalton Tourette Dec 2008 - Validated link
flickr - Photo(s)
[16 photos], Jenny Neal, 28-Dec-2008
4. The (Insert Name Here) Mummers: The "Isn't bloody xmas over yet?" Tourette of Carshalton. - Validated link
flickr - Photo(s)
[16 photos], Mick McTiernan, 27-Dec-2008
5. The (Insert Name Here) Mummers "Thank god that Xmas is over"Tourette Dec 27 2007 - Validated link
- Photo(s)
[26 photos], Mick McTiernan, 28-Dec-2007
6. The (Insert Name Here) Mummers in Uppermill, at the Saddlewoth Rushcart, on Saturday 20th Aug.2005 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[2 images], David Houghton, 20-Aug-2005
Notes:
Associate members of The Morris Ring
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The Lions Part [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Bankside, Grid Ref.: TQ3280, Lat.& Long.: 51.5074, -0.0906
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2005 (1), 2007 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
info@thelionspart.co.uk, Phone: 0208 928 0404
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Middlesex
Herga Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Pinner, Grid Ref.: TQ1289, Lat.& Long.: 51.5926, -0.3758
Description:
Performers of the Herga Play - patched together from the scripts of traditional Middlesex plays.
Established:
1969
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (3), 2012 (1), 2014 (1), 2016 (1)
Media Links:
1. The Herga Mummers performing in Middlesex, England on Boxing Day 2003 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[2 images], Liz Draper, 26-Dec-2003
Contact:
Bob Hawkes (gaffer@hergamummers.co.uk), Phone: 07811 321091
Part of:
Herga Folk Club
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Norfolk
Dragon Hall Mummers [Website]
Category:
Special Festival Troupe
Home Town:
Norwich, Grid Ref.: TG2308, Lat.& Long.: 52.6282, 1.3010
Description:
Performances are put on at special events at Strangers' Hall Museum, various events and for local groups.
Established:
2007
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2011 (3), 2012 (1), 2013 (2), 2014 (3), 2015 (5), 2016 (1), 2017 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Shea Fiddes (shea@dragonhallnorwich.org.uk)
Address: Dragon Hall, 115-123 King Street, Norwich, NR1 1QE
Part of:
Dragon Hall Heritage Volunteers
Notes:
The play is based on a 1911 version from Norwich, supplemented by lines and characters from many mummmers plays with a few topical/local lines thrown in.Members of the company are Dragon Hall volunteers and staff. St George had special significance to Dragon Hall in medieval times
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North Yorkshire
Flash Company Mummers
Category:
Other Performing Group
Home Town:
Whitby
Description:
[None provided]
Established:
2014
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: None registered
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Rebecca Denniff (rebeccagrossmusic@gmail.com)
Part of:
Flash Company
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Free range and Freshly laid Pace-Eggers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Cowling, Grid Ref.: SE2387, Lat.& Long.: 54.2824, -1.6390
Description:
Typically topical, terrifically tragic, tremendously terpitudinous, but non terpsichorean.
Established:
2012
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2012 (1), 2013 (2)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Alan Perrow (alan@laughing-gravy.co.uk)
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Fylingdales Guizers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Robin Hood's Bay, Grid Ref.: NZ9505, Lat.& Long.: 54.4358, -0.5275
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2005 (1)
Media Links:
1. Fylingdales Guizers performing on the 23rd Dec.2005 in the Fylingdales district, North Yorkshire, England - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Doc Rowe, 23-Dec-2005
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Knaresborough Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Knaresborough, Grid Ref.: SE3557, Lat.& Long.: 54.0121, -1.4582
Description:
[None provided]
Established:
1974
Performances:
Forthcoming:
 08-Nov-2024
1. - 19:30
Frazer Theatre, Park Crest, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 0EQ, England
Notes:
KNARESBOROUGH MUMMERS 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT with North East singer supreme and Warhorse Songman, BOB FOX and Knaresborough Mummers.
Tickets on sale via WeGotTickets in due course.
Past events: 2001 (5), 2002 (5), 2003 (5), 2004 (7), 2005 (5), 2006 (5), 2007 (1), 2008 (6), 2009 (5), 2010 (5), 2011 (8), 2012 (9), 2013 (6), 2014 (6), 2015 (5), 2016 (10), 2017 (12), 2018 (8), 2019 (10), 2020 (9), 2021 (6), 2022 (10), 2023 (10), 2024 (1)
Media Links:
1. Knaresborough Mummers Blue Stots Marton - Validated link
YouTube - Video
, John Burrell, 04-Jan-2009
Contact:
John Burrell (jburrel1@hotmail.co.uk), Phone: 01423 566112
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Leven Sword [Website]
Category:
Sword Dance Group
Home Town:
Great Ayton, Grid Ref.: NZ5610, Lat.& Long.: 54.4893, -1.1315
Description:
We are a mixed gender longsword team based in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, who also perform the Cleveland Fool Plough sword dance play noted in J. Horsfall Turner's 'Yorkshire Anthology' published in 1901.
Established:
2016
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2019 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
carynloftus@gmail.com
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Middleton Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Middleton, Cowling, Grid Ref.: SD9643, Lat.& Long.: 53.8877, -2.0547
Description:
All performers in the Group live in the hamlet of Middleton or nearby village. We perform a traditional combat play featuring a famous celebrity involved in an important issue of the day; the play also satirises issues currently in the news. This is to give relevance for a modern audience.
Established:
2001
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1)
Media Links:
1. Middleton Mummers Play - Middleton, Cowling - 17th Dec 2006 - Unverified link
YouTube - Video
[10min 58sec], Joan Tindale, 17-Dec-2006
2. Middleton Mummers, North Yorkshire, England on the 19th Dec.2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], 19-Dec-2004
Contact:
Mark Barnes (middleton.mummers@btinternet.com), Phone: 01535 637352
Address: 44 Middleton, Cowling, Keighley, West Yorkshire. BD22 0DQ
Notes:
Tour 5 venues + one outside venue (weather permitting) in South Craven on last Sunday before Christmas Eve. Now disbanded?
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Penny Plain Theatre Company (Hardcastle's Mighty Excelsior Theatre Company) [Website]
Category:
Other Performing Group
Home Town:
Grassington
Description:
Performing in the guise of Victorian travelling players, Penny Plain present a comic pastoral selection of songs, dances and a traditional mummers' play. The 45 minute show showcases talents from a breath-taking rapper sword dance to a maypole shambles performed with changing seasonal material in the summer and at Christmas.
Established:
2006
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2012 (4), 2016 (2)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Jane Ellison-Bates (jane@manifestmarketing.co.uk), Phone: 01756 720034 or 07808 169416
Address: Rose Cottage, Appletreewick, North Yorks,
Notes:
The content of the show varies with each season, but always features a mummers' play.
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Redcar Sword Dancers [Website]
Category:
Sword Dance Group
Home Town:
Great Ayton, Grid Ref.: NZ5610, Lat.& Long.: 54.4893, -1.1315
Description:
Redcar Sword Dancers perform traditional English longsword dances from the north east of England. Although chiefly known for our revival of the Greatham dance and the associated mummers play, we perform Eston and California and other dances from the north east corner of Yorkshire.
Established:
1967
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1), 2015 (1), 2016 (1), 2017 (1), 2018 (1), 2022 (1), 2023 (1)
Media Links:
1. Redcar Sword Dancers performing Greatham Sword Dance Play at Greatham, Co. Durham, 26th Dec.2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[2 images], Hannah Pearce, 26-Dec-2004
Contact:
Brian Pearce (brian.pearce11@btinternet.com), Phone: 01642 725129 (Home) or 07910 479922 (Mob.)
Address: 140 Newton Road
Great Ayton TS9 6DL
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Ripon Sword Dancers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Ripon, Grid Ref.: SE3171, Lat.& Long.: 54.1382, -1.5178
Description:
[None provided]
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (1), 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2009 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Paul Freeman, Phone: 01765 603133
Address: 40 Mallorie Park Drive, Ripon HG4 2QF
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Wakeman Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-only Group
Home Town:
Ripon, Grid Ref.: SE3171, Lat.& Long.: 54.1382, -1.5178
Description:
The performers were a loosely-organised group that was 'formalised' in 1986, when Ripon celebrated 1,100 years of its Royal Charter as a City and so a specially-written play was performed during St Wilfrid's Week (1st week of August) on the market square, chronicling the granting of Ripon's Charter. This play has been performed in that week ever since.
Established:
1986
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (2), 2002 (2), 2003 (1), 2004 (2), 2005 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Jim Coulson (jim@woodexperts.com), Phone: +44 (0)1765 601010
Notes:
As well as the Skelton-on-Ure play (revived and performed since 1980), we also perform the Topcliffe Play, which Jim Coulson collected in 1989; this is now performed between Xmas and New Year in the village of that name, 5 miles from Ripon.
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Northamptonshire
Eydon Mummers [Website]
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Eydon, Grid Ref.: SP5450, Lat.& Long.: 52.1497, -1.2034
Description:
Eydon Mummers are a village based men's group who perform Eydon’s traditional Mumming Play each year, usually on Boxing Day at the Royal Oak. Rotating cast and membership ensure a fresh interpretation of the same play script year on year, which has been much acclaimed.
Established:
1991
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2001 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (2), 2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1), 2016 (1), 2017 (1)
Media Links:
[None registered]
Contact:
Kevin Lodge (kevin.lodge@eydon.org.uk), Phone: +44 1327 261535
Part of:
Royal Oak Morris
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Moulton Mummers
Category:
Folk Play-acting Sub-Group
Home Town:
Moulton, Grid Ref.: SP7866, Lat.& Long.: 52.2906, -0.8489
Description:
The local play was performed by villagers up to the time of World War I. When revived in 1972 the text used was confirmed as close to the original by villagers who knew it. Particular phrases and amendments remembered were included in subsequent performances.
Established:
1972
Performances:
Forthcoming: None registered
Past events: 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2009 (1), 2010 (4), 2011 (1), 2012 (1)
Media Links:
1. Moulton Mummers Play - Validated link
YouTube - Video
[10min 56sec], FiddlerNick, 23-Apr-2008
2. Moulton Mummers performing on Stocks Hill, Moulton, Northamptonshire, England, 27th Dec.2004 - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[2 images], Mollie Care, 27-Dec-2004
3. Moulton Mummers performing on the 26th December 2003 on Stocks Hill, Moulton, Northamptonshire, England - Validated link
Folk Play Research - Photo(s)
[1 image], Mollie Care, 26-Dec-2003
Contact:
Barry Care (barrycare@tiscali.co.uk), Phone: 01604 646818
Address: 8 Chater Street, Moulton, Northampton, NN3 7UD
Part of:
Moulton Morris Men
Notes:
Characters: Presenter (man/woman), Little Jerry Doubt, Bold Slasher, St. George, Doctor, plus the following: Be-elzebub, Clown, and Johnny Jack.
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