Gower Mummers, Mumbles

​The Gower Mummers Play or The Christmas Sport, Mumbles Thurs 18th December

The first tour this year of The Gower Mummers Play, or Christmas Sport as it was known, kicked off in a fairly quiet Mumbles on a rainy evening with us visiting The Waterloo Stores, The Victoria, and Harry’s Bar aka Mumbales. We were to visit The George but couldn’t perform there this year.

The Play followed its usual form with a procession of random folk like The Narrator, Father Christmas and Belzebub, calling a Valiant Soldier in to make boast that he would fight King George, whereupon King George enters and the two have a mock sword fight resulting in the demise of Valiant Soldier, who then is miraculously revived by a Doctor who is clearly qualified in the field of medicine by virtue of him being travelled far and wide and wearing a top hat! The hat was passed around and we sang a song with our skilled musicians, Sian, Keith & Di playing a mix of festive tunes to everyone’s delight and conclude events at each pub we performed in.

We collected for Maggies Swansea Cancer Charity £90.26 which we hope to add to when we next parade the Mummers Play on Tues 23rd around the south Gower area. We all had good fun performing the play and thank all the Landlord’s/Ladies for letting us perform and to all their customers contributing to our collecting buckets.

The Cast: Narrator Ken Bond, Father Christmas Di Clark, Beelzebub Alex Heney, Valiant Soldier Geoff Wildman, King George Paul Tarrant, The Doctor Nigel Howarth.

Below are a selection of pics superbly taken by Sian, Rebecca and Claire of the evening’s performance.