Historical Pageant in the Hermitage Garden
Pageant type
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/