I play the Welsh dragon who gets slain by St George in the "Traditional Ewell Village Mummers' Play" every Boxing Day. The character gives the audience a chance to repeat "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndroblllantisiliogogogoch". We also have the Hoggsmille Troll which emerges from the river Hogsmill and one year year we had the North Pole Snow Queen (in real life a TV presenter from Norway).

And of course, we have the usual motley crew. Dr Good, Little Jack, Napoleon, Turkey Snipe, Bold Slasher, Santa Claus.

The point about mummers' plays surely is to give the punters what they want. We can get about 300 in the audience. If we kept to the "original" tradition, we'd have Old Nick wandering around with a huge phallus. NOT A PRETTY SIGHT.

Taff Edwards