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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
 Packet 3 : Mummers Plays
 Folder 29 : Mummers Plays - A
 

Page 01883- 01886 : The Gaysers [play text] Mrs A. F. Brown (contributor), Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Item Summary

Formatplay text
TitleThe Gaysers
ContributorMrs A. F. Brown
Index NameBrown, Mrs A. F.
PlaceMeir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 01883- 01886

Scope and Content Notes

Genre play - hero-combat play
First lineOpen the door to let me in

'Went Christmas Eve, faces blacked, with any old clothes.'
Mentions Ralph Stuart, 32 Portland Ave. Buffalo, NY
Gives the name of Mr Ted Emery, Retired potters' colour mfg. Watland Avenue, Port Hill, Woolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent
Original ms appears to be at pp. 06372-06375.
4 pages
Character List First Man
Black Prince
King George
Pacemaker
Owd Oliver
Little Doctor

Contextual Notes

Mrs A. W. Brown, St An's-on-Sea, Lancashire; 'Learned at Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire'.

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