Darlington Mummers Diary

Daringly on August we're hosting the Saltburn Festival Folk Club,

8pm, upstairs in the Victoria we think.

Around midday on Sunday 15th we'll be performing by the Saltburn Station Portico.

Darlington Mummers are a revivalist team but with our own tradition of over 40 years of presenting Mummers Plays at Folk Clubs and Festivals; indeed for many earlier years simply appearing out of the blue in local pubs. Our stalwart play was long the Pace Egg from Lancaster but for many years now we have performed also a Wooing Play, a Souling Play (featuring Dick the 'oss) and plays from as far as Netley Abbey, Hampshire and as near as Haughton le Skerne. We have also a fine Tup and an Old 'Oss custom. Whilst ever light hearted we are careful never to turn the traditional play into a pantomime.

John Wilson