Question: Mummer, the album by XTC, refers to what kind of folk play?
Context: The southern state of Karnataka, in India, has a distinct art and culture.  The diverse linguistic and religious ethnicity that are native to state of Karnataka combined with their long histories have contributed immensely to the varied cultural heritage of the state.  Apart from Kannadigas, Karnataka is home to Tuluvas, Kodavas and Konkanis who also consider themselves as Kannadigas.  Minor populations of Tibetan Buddhists and Siddhi tribes plus a few other ethnic groups also live in Karnataka.  The traditional folk arts cover the entire gamut of music, dance, drama, storytelling by itinerant troupes, etc.  Yakshagana, a classical folk play, is one of the major theatrical forms of coastal Karnataka.  Contemporary theatre culture in Karnataka is one of the most vibrant in India with organizations like Ninasam, Ranga Shankara and Rangayana active on foundations laid down by the Gubbi Veeranna Nataka Company.  Veeragase, Kamsale and Dollu Kunitha are popular dance forms.  Bharatanatya also enjoys wide patronage in Karnataka. Mummer is the sixth studio album by the English band XTC, released on 30 August 1983.  It reached No. 51 on the UK album chart and No. 145 on the U.S. Billboard album charts.  The album title refers to a Mummers play.  Working titles considered for the album were "Fruit" and "Fallen From The Garden". Abdul Gafur Hali (also known as Gafur Hali Maizbhanderi; 6 August 1929 – 21 December 2016) was a Bangladeshi folk lyricist, composer and singer.  He was the first folk play author to use the local language of Chittagong.  His works are created mainly in his native language of Chittagong.  He was also known by his Sufi name, Gafur Hali Maizbhanderi. "Wonderland" is a single by XTC released in June 1983, written by Colin Moulding and taken from the album Mummer. Strictly speaking, a mummer is an actor in a traditional seasonal folk play.  The term is also humorously (or derogatorily) applied to any actor. Jaipur Tamasha, a unique musical folk play, is a 19th-century contribution by Jaipur city in Indian state of Rajasthan to the folk theatre of Rajasthan.  At the outset of the 18th century, in the peripherals of Agra, between two groups originated and developed a poetic dialogue.  This later on came to be known as ‘Khayal-Tamasha’ during the reign of Aurangzeb, when musical art was becoming doomed, the contemporary emperor of Jaipur, Maharaja Sawai Jaisingh brought a few artists to Jaipur and settled them in Brahmpuri.  The foremost among them was the Bhatt Family of Jaipur. Tales from the Vienna Woods (1931) is the most famous play by Austro-Hungarian writer Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938).  It was premièred in Berlin in 1931 and has been filmed several times.  Before the première, the German writer and playwright, Carl Zuckmayer nominated the play for the Kleist Prize, which it won, the most significant literary award of the Weimar Republic.  The play's title is a reference to the waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss II.  Horvarth's play premièred at the Deutsches Theatre, Berlin.  Written in the late 1920s during the period of catastrophic unemployment and the Great Depression, the play is a key work of modern drama, described by Erich Kaestner as "a Viennese folk play accompanied by Viennese folk songs".  It is a bitter satire about the mendacity and brutality of the petite-bourgeoisie, named ironically after the forested highlands near the Austrian capital that are so idealised in the waltz.  In the play, Viennese 'Gemütlichkeit' or 'coziness' becomes a hollow phrase; the tragic, brutal story of the sweet girl Marianne and the deeply conventional butcher Oskar reflects the hardships and anxieties of the late 1920s during the global economic crisis. The Big Express is the seventh studio album by the English band XTC, released in 1984.  It was one of XTC's harder-edged albums, in contrast to the pastoral "Mummer" and "Skylarking" which were released in sequence with it.  Initial copies of the LP were released in a round sleeve.  Working titles considered for the album were "Coalface", "Head of Steam", "Shaking Skin House", "Bastard Son of Hard Blue Rayhead", "The Known World", and "Bull with the Golden Guts". Mummers' Plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as "rhymers", "pace-eggers", "soulers", "tipteerers", "wrenboys", and "galoshins").  It refers particularly to a play in which a number of characters are called on stage, two of whom engage in a combat, the loser being revived by a Doctor character.  This play is sometimes found associated with a sword dance though both also exist in Britain independently. Jomfru Trofast (Miss Faithful) is a Norwegian film from 1921 based on a folk play with a script by Vilhelm Krag.  The film is a story from Southern Norway and was directed by Rasmus Breistein.  The sets were designed by Egil Sætren.  The film is fully preserved, and it has been restored and digitized.
Answer: Mummers' Plays