The Spring and Summer of 2020 is looking more and more like a write-off every day. Here’s a reminder of the Dancing England event from last year at the Nottingham Playhouse, starring some of your…
We took a risk last year when booking the Nottingham Playhouse as the venue for the 2019 Dancing England. Historically, and in 2017, the event was in the round. Would Dancing England work well on…
We’ve several exhibitions kindly being brought to the event to entertain and educate you. How noble of us. Dr. Lucy Wright (ethnomusicologist and dialogical artist) will be bringing some examples of her study of Carnival…
We all know that Richard Scollins was a very hard act to follow. But Natalie Reid did it for us in 2017, and has come up with the goods again. This time taking a well-known…
Not only do we have a packed event on the Playhouse Stage for you, we’ve also got some other stuff going on too, workshops from 1:30pm and exhibitions, stalls, and films in the foyer from…
Thanks for your patience over the last couple of months, during which we’ve teased you with who’s appearing on stage at Dancing England on Saturday 26th January at the Nottingham Playhouse. It’s looking like a…
We are very much looking forward to watching Taylor’s Morris on stage at the Playhouse. Formed in 2016, the team are dedicated to performing, developing and promoting the Longborough tradition. With members drawn from a wide geographical…
As we are sure you’re (becoming!) aware, there are different varieties of the Morris from different parts of the country, e.g. Cotswold, North West Clog and Molly Dancing from Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and Essex. The…
In 1710, the ‘Tatler’ wrote of letters sent by the ladies of Nottingham complaining of a lack of sleep. They were, it seems, kept awake by bands of carousing lovers and serenaders wandering the streets…
Mummers’ plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins). It refers particularly to a play in which a number of characters are called on stage,…