The White Boys Play (Lowendar Peran, 1990)
Channel: Culture Vannin
Date: 13/12/2021

A 1990 recording of the Manx mummers' play, The White Boys (Ny Guillyn Baney), at Lowendar Peran.

Saints killing one another, a doctor resurrecting them from the dead, raucous singing & dancing with swords - the White Boys are named by their strange costume and their play is brilliant part of a traditional Manx Christmas.
This recording is from the Lowendar Peran in Cornwall, recorded on 20 October 1990.

The performers are:
Little Devil Doubt - Colin Jerry
St. Denis - David Fisher
St. George - David Callister
St. Patrick - Greg Joughin
The Doctor - Bobba Gregor
Big Head - [Unidentified]

This film has been digitised and released with thanks to Linda Carswell, Ted Chapman and the Lowendar Peran Celtic festival (https://www.lowenderperan.co.uk/).

More information about the White Boys can be found here: https://culturevannin.im/manxfolklore/the-white-boys-505782/

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