Historical Pageant in the Hermitage Garden

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Performances

Place: The Hermitage Garden (Nottingham) (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England)

Year: 1924

Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors

Number of performances: 2

Notes

28 June 1924 

[Performances at 3pm and 7pm]

Name of pageant master and other named staff

  • Producer [Pageant Master]: Truman, Nevil
  • Wardrobe Mistress: Miss Bowler

Names of executive committee or equivalent

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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)

  • Glassford, Rev. D.T.

Names of composers

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Numbers of performers

Financial information

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Object of any funds raised

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Linked occasion

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Audience information

  • Grandstand: Not Known
  • Grandstand capacity: n/a
  • Total audience: n/a

Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Associated events

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Pageant outline

Prologue

Scene 1. Arrest of St Alban

Scene 2. St Alban’s Martyrdom

Scene 3. St Gregory in the Slave Market

Scene 4. The Coming of St Augustine

Scene 5. James I receives the Authorised Version

Scene 6. The Consecration of Bishop Seabury

Scene 7. Holy Church Comes to the Heathen

Epilogue

Key historical figures mentioned

  • Alban [St Alban, Albanus] (d. c.303?) Christian martyr in Roman Britain
  • Augustine [St Augustine] (d. 604) missionary and archbishop of Canterbury
  • James VI and I (1566–1625) king of Scotland, England, and Ireland

Musical production

Orchestra directed by Una and Irene Truman. Priest’s Choir arranged by the Vicar of Sneinton

Newspaper coverage of pageant

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Book of words

None noted

Other primary published materials

  • Historical Pageant in the Hermitage Garden June 28th 1924 [Programme]. Nottingham, 1924. [Price 2d.]

References in secondary literature

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

  • Copy of programme in Nottinghamshire Record Office, Reference DD/1392/50

Sources used in preparation of pageant

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Summary

This is an example of an interwar church pageant, which tells the story of Christianity in England, from the arrival of St Alban through to the missionary work done by the present church, a common theme of many pageants. Nottingham held a number of other pageants, notably in 1919, 1935 and 1949.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Historical Pageant in the Hermitage Garden’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1495/