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‘Splendid Display; Pompous Spectacle’: historical pageants in twentieth-century Britain

“…One such play was Ann Jellicoe's The Reckoning, set and performed in Lyme Regis and depicting the Monmouth Rebellion, while Peter Terson's Under the Fish and Over the Water was based on the Bradford on Avon riot of 1791, and members of the local community were involved in historical research to support the production. 219 A more recent example is Petra Kuppers's theatrical work in Ystradgynlais in south Wales, inspired by local mythology and involving people with disabilities in what Kuppers presents as 'political labor'. 220 Some community plays resemble pageants in depicting successive events, though they usually lack the pageants' chronological range.…”