Tom Brown compared mumming with stage theatre, concluding that mummers do the bare minimum to qualify as drama.
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Bill Tuck discussed the earliest English pantomimes and their possible relationship with mumming plays.
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Mike Pearson examined how the Marshfield Mummers' performance is tailored to their village, and how they cope in other contexts.
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Lynn Lunde talked ably on Mumming in Newfoundland, despite problems with her slides, and showed footage of the custom.
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Steve Rowley talked about the characters in the 'Bajan' (Barbados) Tuk bands.
Fortuitously, a Bajan hobby horse happened to be on hand to illustrate 'Steel Donkey'.
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Ron Shuttleworth in the audience, also staged a lunchtime display of material from the Morris Ring Folk Play Archive.
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Graham Clarke wore costume to give his entertaining talk on Guisering today on the Derbyshire/Nottingamshire border.
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Peter Harrop stepped in at the last minute to talk eruditely on the Antrobus Soul Cakers.
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Gavin Skinner gave an illustrated talk on the Brunel play that he wrote for Bristol in 2009.
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Steve Rowley and Claudia Chapman conversed on stage about
the Hat City Mummers, Danbury, Connecticut, USA
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