Parsons Mead Golden Jubilee 1897-1947: A Pageant of Fifty Years
Pageant type
Notes
Commemorating the Parsons Mead School
Performances
Place: Parsons Mead School (Ashtead) (Ashtead, Surrey, England)
Year: 1947
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
1947
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Written and Devised by [Pageant Master]: Erskine, Kathleen
Names of executive committee or equivalent
n/a
Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Erskine, Kathleen
Names of composers
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Notes
All performers were pupils from the school.
Numbers of performers
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Financial information
Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
50 years of the School.
Audience information
- Grandstand: No
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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Pageant outline
Part I.
- Scene
I. Miss Elliston’s Drawing Room [1897]
- Scene
II. Music Lesson [Dancing Class, Sewing Class]
- Scene
III. The School Kitchen
- Scene
IV. Sports c. 1900
- Scene
V. As You Like It
Part II.
- Scene
VI. Gymnastic Display
- Scene
VII. War Comes to the School
- Scene
VIII. Papageno [arranged and adapted by J. Michael Disch]
- Scene
IX. The Hope of the Future
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
Newspaper coverage of pageant
Book of words
- Parsons Mead Golden Jubilee 1897-1947. Epsom, 1947.
Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Book of Words in Surrey History Centre, Woking, reference 8091/5/1.
Sources used in preparation of pageant
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It.
Summary
There is little information about this pageant, which told the story of Parsons Mead School from its foundation fifty years earlier in 1897. The private girls’ school was established by Jessie Elliston, and has since closed down.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Parsons Mead Golden Jubilee 1897-1947: A Pageant of Fifty Years’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1158/