Twelth night will soon be upon us and I invite you all to join in a little revelry on Bank Holiday Monday.
On Monday 3rd January at 1pm, the theatre collective, the Lions part will be presenting their annual end-of-Christmas ritual The 12th night Mummers play. It's not actually Twelfth Night on the 3rd but it's the nearest holiday we can get. The event begins outside Shakespeare's Globe with the arrival of the Green Man, by boat, followed by the wassailing ritual. We then make the short procession to the Bankside Pier where the mummers play is performed featuring Father Christmas, St George, the Turkey Sniper, the Spanish Doctor, and Beelzebub. At the end we will find the King Bean and Queen Pea from the audience and have a coronation. From there we farandole off to the George Inn for mulled wine, ale food and Morris dancing and singing.
"A more oddly English event you could not hope to find in London."
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