Folk play props and costumes
Intangible Cultural Heritage?   More >>

Mummers' and Guisers' plays as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Joint Morris Organisations are seeking feedback on their draft Expressions of Interest to the Inventories of Living Heritage UK, which include mumming and guising plays.   More >>

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Directory of Folk Play Groups

Master Mummers' comprehensive worldwide database of over 300 performing groups. You can search by keyword, county/state or group type. Search result formats range from simple tabular lists to comprehensive full records, as well as interactive maps.

Folk Play Events

A list of forthcoming performance dates and tour maps. You can 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.

Folk Play Scripts Explorer

A database of over 220 folk play texts organised by county and type. As well as displayable full scripts, specialist features let you:

Electronic ERD: An Index to English Folk Drama

A guide to over 1,500 places where traditional plays were performed in Great Britain, Ireland, and overseas. It is an updated version of the seminal book English Ritual Drama (ERD), published in 1967, with a new Introduction, and searching and mapping options.

Nottinghamshire List of Folk Plays

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

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...

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Photographs

Selected pictures of folk play performances

Policies

Copyright, privacy, etc.

About Master Mummers

The website's history, approach, etc.

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