Welcome to the 2018 redesigned Folk Play Research website, the website of the Traditional Drama Research Group (TDRG). Here you will find an essay about the mummers' play, and a variety of resources including a bibliography, a selection of texts and contexts of performance, conference papers and scanned booklets of county-based and genre-based references. There are also details of some of the major collections of information about mummers' plays, and a small gallery of photographs. All the past issues of Roomer newsletter are available, containing much important information on traditional drama.
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Midgley Pace-Eggers circa 1930s -
Minstead, Hampshire, 1912, Courtesy Steve Roud,Paul Marsh collection -
Alderley Mummers circa 1910 -
Comberbach Soul Cakers circa 1946 -
Helsby Soul-Cakers, Cheshire circa 1925, courtesy of Herbert Fletcher