19-21 July, 2002, Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, England
Conference registration starts in the afternoon of Friday 19th July. The Vice-Chancellor of the University will host a short reception at 5.00pm. Dinner will be at 6.00pm, followed by the first conference presentation. The rest of the evening will be spent in and around the bar. The conference will finish with afternoon tea at around 4.00pm on Sunday 21st July.
| Draft Programme | ||
| FRIDAY 19TH JULY 2002 | ||
| Registration & Welcome | ||
| 2.00pm on | Registration | |
| 3.30pm | Tea | |
| 5.00pm | Vice-Chancellor's Reception | |
| 6.30pm | Dinner | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 7.45pm | Eddie Cass | 'Dr Carpenter of Harvard College': On cataloguing a major folk play collection. |
| 8.45pm | Session Close | |
| SATURDAY 20TH JULY 2002 | ||
| Session 2 - Chair: Jacqueline Simpson | ||
| 9.30am | Welcome by Dr Joan Beal - Director, NATCECT | |
| 9.35am | Derek Schofield | "Christmas at Uttoxeter: The Guisers Made Their Usual Tour". |
| 10.15am | Emily Lyle | Transformations of 'Galoshins' in the twentieth century |
| 11.00am | Coffee | |
| 11.30am | Peter Millington | Textual Analysis of English Quack Doctor Plays: Some new discoveries |
| 12.15pm | Neill Martin | Entries |
| 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| Session 3 - Chair: Mike Preston | ||
| 2.00pm | Paul Smith | The Papa Stour Sword Dance Play |
| 2.45pm | Christopher Cawte | County Durham, the oldest known Sword Dance Play text |
| 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 4.00pm | Sandra Billington | 'The Game of Torturers' in Mystery Plays as midsummer play |
| 4.45pm | Thomas Pettitt | The Folk Interlude: Dramatic Aspects of Traditional Games, Gambols and Songs |
| 5.30pm | Session Close | |
| 6.00pm | Dinner | |
| Session 4 - Chair: Eddie Cass | ||
| 7.45pm | Discussion: | Insights into the Alex Helm Collection - with Christopher Cawte, Norman Peacock, Peter Millington and others |
| 8.30pm | Session Close | |
| SUNDAY 21ST JULY 2002 | ||
| Session 5 - Chair: Peter Millington | ||
| 9.30am | George Mifsud-Chircop | Past Carnival and New Year's Eve Drama in Malta |
| 10.15am | Duncan Broomhead | The Alderley Mummers' Play. A story of survival and revival |
| 11.00am | Coffee | |
| 11.30am | Mike Preston | Reading Traditional Drama Chapbooks Closely: Evidence Concerning their Oral and Written Sources |
| 12.15pm | Peter Robson | Folksong in Dorset Mummers' Plays |
| 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| Session 6 - Chair: Tom Pettitt | ||
| 2.00pm | Terry Gunnell | Monsters in the Wiggle-Waggle. The origins of the Icelandic Vikivaki Games |
| 2.45pm | John Widdowson | The Soldiers: Text and Context in Performance of Mummers' Plays from Change Islands, Newfoundland |
| 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 4.00pm | Conference Close | |
The conference fee for full residential delegates is £125 or £150 sterling depending on room type. All accommodation is in Halifax Hall. Reduced charges for non-residential day delegates are itemised on the Registration Form. Please register by printing out the Registration Form and send it to Eddie Cass with your conference fee by 7th July 2002.