Penny Plain Theatre Company will be performing their new Summer Mummers show this year at Festivals across the North.

Following the popularity of the company’s winter tour of the past four years, in their familiar personae as a dishevelled bunch of travelling nineteenth century thespians known as Hardcastle’s men, this year’s summer show is based on the same format with a summer rather than Christmas theme.

Performing a pastoral selection of Victorian folk songs, dances and a mummers play whose origins have been traced to Linton-in-Craven, the show features the now familiar troupe arriving tired, hot and grumpy to perform somewhat reluctantly for ‘the hat’.

Showcasing talents from a breathtaking rapper sword dance to a maypole shambles, with traditional folk anthems and summer spirit – of the alcoholic kind of course – the show transports the audience to a bucolic Victorian summer.

Ripon Festival, Saltburn Folk Festival and Fylde Folk Festival are among the tour list. Local venues wishing to play host to the troupe this summer should contact Andrew Jackson on 01756 752695.

More details on the show and performance dates can be viewed at www.pennyplaintheatre.co.uk