Sandy, it's interesting how that Lenten "Mi-Carême" looks just like the Christmas "mummering" in Newfoundland that I had linked to before. It looks like there's no particular performance or theatrics in either of those, other than individual disguises.

(As an aside, I enjoyed visiting Cheticamp on my Cape Breton visit some years back, and Cheticamp Reel is a favorite to play.)

Nerd's Washington, DC, production was a wonderful spoof based on the English/British Christmas mumming plays -- but I guess it's also traditional to adapt the details of the play to spoof contemporary issues of one sort or another (an especially local issue in this case: the retirement of one of the folklorists).

There's nothing like self-referential folk activities! :-)

~ Becky in Long Beach