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The 2nd Bath International Mummers Festival took place on the Friday 16th & Saturday 17th November 2012. An academic symposium was held on the Friday, with performances and workshops taking place around the city centre on the Saturday.
Still from the Mummers animation from Gráinne & Eimear Tynan Symposium: Peter Harrop introducing Gráinne & Eimear Tynan
Peter Harrop introduced Gráinne & Eimear Tynan who showed and explained their animation of morphing drawings of mummers, stills from which adorn this page.
For more information see their Hunting the Wren website.
Symposium: Chris Timson presenting Anne Gregson's talk
Laryngitis meant that Chris Timson had to step in to present Anne Gregson's talk on her opera "Make Room for Mummers". A video of a performance of the opera by the Fiery Dragon Folk Opera Company was shown during the symposium.
Symposium: Maureen James Still from the Mummers animation from Gráinne & Eimear Tynan
Maureen James posed interesting questions about why a script compiled by Peterborough Folk Club in 1968 is identical to a play later "collected" from Whittlesea.
Still from the Mummers animation from Gráinne & Eimear Tynan Symposium: Ron Shuttleworth with his antennae
Ron Shuttleworth caused a minor stir when he donned antenna lights to read his paper on the early days of the Coventry Mummers.
Symposium: Gwilym Davies Still from the Mummers animation from Gráinne & Eimear Tynan
Gwilym Davies compared Mumming and Wassailing customs in Gloucestershire, revealing numerous similarities and overlap between them.
See also the symposium's Programme, Abstracts, Authors' biographies, and general Festival photos.
 
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