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Mumming
We went mumming last night. Great fun.
Visited four pubs, three of which were fairly quiet early (for given values of early) in on a Friday evening, and one (the last at 9:30) which had a folk duo playing.
The first three had tiny audiences, but this was generally a good thing as it allowed the cast to gain confidence and get used to having an audience.
By the time we reached the Portsmouth Hoy, we were well into the spirit of it all and performed to great gusto. The audience cheered, booed and laughed in all the right places and it was great.
The ad libs were also starting to fly fast and free.
Doctor (Part of the script) - I can cure your wife of a headache, your husband of a bellyache.
Audience member - I'm not married.
Doctor - I charge extra for that!
St George, in a remarkably unsaintly manner was carefully stabbing both the dead bodies, that he'd slain in the swordfight, to ensure they were properly dead and tipping the devil (me) a penny to try and help me raise money to prevent the Doctor from raising them from the dead!
The great joy of performing in a space this small (you know how much space there is in the bar of an average pub) is that you're really close to the audience and able to get immediate feedback from them.
There's a few photos from rehearsal here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106166224635586159957/albums/posts
You can see St George (sword and spear/broom in hand), the Valiant Soldier (with twin light sabres, because we could and we wanted to!), and the Doctor with his black bag and tatter jacket. You can't see the Turkish Knight, Beelzebub and Santa, but we all wear similar tatter jackets with headgear appropriate for the role: devil's horns, Santa hat, turban.
The tatter jackets are quasi-historical which is convenient given that our normal morris kit is tatter jackets...
The young lad with the light sabres is Anonymous Morris's most recent recruit. He's only 12, but he's shaping up as a good dancer.
Visited four pubs, three of which were fairly quiet early (for given values of early) in on a Friday evening, and one (the last at 9:30) which had a folk duo playing.
The first three had tiny audiences, but this was generally a good thing as it allowed the cast to gain confidence and get used to having an audience.
By the time we reached the Portsmouth Hoy, we were well into the spirit of it all and performed to great gusto. The audience cheered, booed and laughed in all the right places and it was great.
The ad libs were also starting to fly fast and free.
Doctor (Part of the script) - I can cure your wife of a headache, your husband of a bellyache.
Audience member - I'm not married.
Doctor - I charge extra for that!
St George, in a remarkably unsaintly manner was carefully stabbing both the dead bodies, that he'd slain in the swordfight, to ensure they were properly dead and tipping the devil (me) a penny to try and help me raise money to prevent the Doctor from raising them from the dead!
The great joy of performing in a space this small (you know how much space there is in the bar of an average pub) is that you're really close to the audience and able to get immediate feedback from them.
There's a few photos from rehearsal here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106166224635586159957/albums/posts
You can see St George (sword and spear/broom in hand), the Valiant Soldier (with twin light sabres, because we could and we wanted to!), and the Doctor with his black bag and tatter jacket. You can't see the Turkish Knight, Beelzebub and Santa, but we all wear similar tatter jackets with headgear appropriate for the role: devil's horns, Santa hat, turban.
The tatter jackets are quasi-historical which is convenient given that our normal morris kit is tatter jackets...
The young lad with the light sabres is Anonymous Morris's most recent recruit. He's only 12, but he's shaping up as a good dancer.
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I wish you only pleasant and successful performances!!!!
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I'm hoping we'll get a chance to film it. If we do, I'll try and post it to You Tube.
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If I had a chance and the British Council would not be so thrifty, I would create a project about an intercultural exchange...this vocabulary is very fashionable now and evidently opens the important door with money behind...and I would ask them to invite you for a chain of performances here. I am sure it would be a success - and you would be paid well too...
However the present situation is very dire and I will not dare to say a word about money...What a pity!
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Now what about the video of the performance... :-)
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Love your Morris dancer userpic :D
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