Floodlit Garden Pageant

Pageant type

Notes

Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Cirencester Bingham Library.

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Performances

Place: Cirencester Park (Cirencester) (Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England)

Year: 1955

Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors

Number of performances: 4

Notes

7-10 July 1955

Name of pageant master and other named staff

  • Producer [Pageant Master]: Crockett, John

Names of executive committee or equivalent

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

  • Apsley, Viola

Names of composers

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Numbers of performers

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Financial information

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Object of any funds raised

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Linked occasion

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Audience information

Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Associated events

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Pageant outline

Key historical figures mentioned

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Musical production

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Newspaper coverage of pageant

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Book of words

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References in secondary literature

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

  • Cirencester Bingham Library holds a copy of the script.

Sources used in preparation of pageant

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Summary

Floodlit pageants became quite common after the Second World War. 

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Floodlit Garden Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1552/