Snuffy

The play is the now known as the Abram Pace Egg play. Essentially it is a composite of Lancashire Easter Pace Egg plays. Dave the Gnome has found an (almost) word for word script in a 19thC book on the Legends of lancashire (I can't remember the exact name of the book) that describes the play being done in a Manchester town centre pub. This play however is based on Christmas and even though the body of the script is almost identical , the calling on speech references Christmas

Eddie Cass writes that it "owes much to the chapbook traditions of Lancashire".

We end the play with your "we're 1-2-3 jolly boys all in one mind" etc.

Our play is only performed during the week before Easter and on Good Friday.

Sorry to all for thread creep but it's constructive thread creep.

Spot (A.K.A. Dave Wynn)