Merched Anrhydedd
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Angharad Jones of Gwynedd Archive Service.
Performances
Place: C.M. Chapel (Moreia) (Morfa Nefyn) (Morfa Nefyn, Carnarvonshire, Wales)
Year: 1958
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 1
Notes
6 Feb. 1958
Name of pageant master and other named staff
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Davies, Rev. Tegla
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Object of any funds raised
Proceeds went towards the Moreia Morfa Nefyn C.M. Chapel.
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Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
Gwynedd Archive Service holds a pageant programme.
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Summary
Merched Anrhydedd was a small pageant staged in the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Morfa Nefyn. The pageant was performed once, on 6 February 1958. It seems to have been performed in Welsh: its title, roughly translated, was 'Women to be Honoured', and its content—as the title suggests—dealt with notable women through the ages. As Amy Binns has shown in a recent article, the use of pageantry as a means of celebrating women’s contribution to history was very popular within Protestant Nonconformity in the period between the First World War and the 1950s, and especially in the 1930s.1 This event appears to have been a relatively late example of just such a pageant of ‘noble women’ and illustrates the appeal of the form in a Welsh context.
The same pageant had been performed in December 1957 at another Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, in Talysarn.
1 Amy Binns, ‘New Heroines for New Causes: how provincial women promoted a revisionist history through post-suffrage pageants’, Women's History Review (2017), DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2017.1313806
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Merched Anrhydedd’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1563/