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Cabot Village 12th Night Celebration: ‘a festival by and for the community’

Times Argus 02 Jan 2025
Wassailing, a Mummers’ play, Morris and sword dancing, a “crankie” show, lots of music, a parade and even hands-on “ugly stick” crafting — Cabot Village is celebrating and inviting everyone to join them ....
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The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg review – the dark side of Christmas

The Observer 20 Dec 2024
Clegg introduces us to the wassailers of Chepstow, with their horses’ skulls on poles, and the Marshfield Mummers of Gloucestershire, who dress up like giant ragged mops and put on a play.
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What Christmas looked like in the middle ages for one grieving family – from carols ...

The Conversation 17 Dec 2024
She was also instructed to avoid “dressing up”, which may refer to the amateur theatrical performances known as “mummers’ plays”, or to performances put on by members of the household.
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Want to celebrate Christmas the British way? Here's how

The Record Herald 14 Dec 2024
"Pantomimes" are children's Christmas plays ... The "principal boy" character in the story is typically played by a girl ... The Christmas pantomimes, which seem to be descended from the medieval "mummers plays," never caught on in America.
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Section III girls winter volleyball stats leaders by year in school (through Dec. 11)

The Post-Standard 12 Dec 2024
Player School Sets Played Kills Blocks Assists Aces Digs ... Zeno Mummer Clinton 12 25 1 0 7 23. Player School Sets Played Kills ... Zeno Mummer Clinton 12 25 ... Player School Sets Played Blocks ... Player School Sets Played Assists ... Player School Sets Played Aces.
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The Winds Of Winter: release date, pre-release chapters, returning characters and everything we know

NME 10 Dec 2024
... Martin is also working on a Game Of Thrones play ... Arya is working in a mummer’s troupe in Braavos and acting as her sister Sansa, in a version of the play we saw on screen in Game of Thrones season 6.
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Misrule and martyrs: 10 dark midwinter traditions

The Observer 08 Dec 2024
a glass of cider, a good bonfire and horse monsters.Watch a mummers’ play. On Boxing Day, across the UK, there are numerous performances of mummers’ plays – strange, formulaic little plays that involve ...
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A Christmas Carol

British Theatre Guide 30 Nov 2024
Little is changed of Dickens’s seminal story—a virtual secular creation myth for the season “when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely”—save for Jones positing it as a play performed by an amateur troupe.
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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke

The Quietus 24 Oct 2024
Leeds underground outfit Wire Worms’ new record is a loose concept album inspired by mummers – amateur theatre groups who would visit house to house performing ritual plays around the winter solstice.
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Perfectly normal British traditions photographed by Homer Sykes

The Times/The Sunday Times 29 Sep 2024
“And passed with pride from one generation to another.” ... The Otterbourne Mummers stage an ancient folk play in a Hampshire village in 2010. Performed in costumes made from strips of wallpaper, the play centres on the fight between good and evil ... .
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Slambovian Circus of Dreams at Stone Church

The Keene Sentinel 22 Feb 2024
Longo (lead vocals, guitars, harmonica), born in Philadelphia, grew up playing traditional country, folk and mummers music with his father and grandfather and has performed professionally since he was 13, when he was doing Bob Dylan covers.
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Light fantastic: Times photographers’ pictures of the month

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Feb 2024
Someone asked. ‘What does the background show?’” Richard Pohle says. A wag piped up. “Is it Britain after 14 years of Tory government?” ... These have been staged for more than 25 years and incorporate ancient customs such as wassailing and mummers’ plays.
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What food is associated with St Brigid's Day?

RTE 29 Jan 2024
The Biddy boys (and girls) is a tradition similar to that of the mummers or the wren boys ... Biddy boys, performed by the Fingal Mummers, made an appearance in a St.
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Cabot Village 12th Night Celebration: Tiny village celebrates with family revelry

Times Argus 04 Jan 2024
Cabot Community Theater will present the 2024 Mummers Play on the Cabot Village Common at 3.30 p.m ... Mummers’ plays are one of the oldest surviving features of the traditional English Christmas.
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What Is the Mummers Parade?

Victoria Advocate 01 Jan 2024
It's coming back! The Mummers Parade in Philadelphia is taking place again in 2024. The annual celebration of the New Year has a long, long history, dating back to 1901 and their first "formal, city-sponsored" parade, per the Mummers Museum.

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