Pageant of Newcraighall Mining Community
Other names
- Pageant of Newcraighall History
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Miners' Welfare Club (Newcraighall) (Newcraighall, City Of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Year: 1989
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
The pageant was first performed in 1989, and revived with a different director in the following year.
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Director [Pageant Master]: Quinan, Lloyd
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Livingston, Archie
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Numbers of performers
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Audience information
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Pageant outline
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Musical production
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Book of words
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Summary
This pageant was first performed in 1989 and revived in the following year. In 1989 the director was Lloyd Quinan, an actor, director and television presenter, who was an MSP, representing the West of Scotland for Scottish National Party, from 1999 to 2003.
There is a 90-minute video of the 1990 version, directed by Billy McElhaney, on YouTube. The pageant was produced under the auspices of the Newcraighall Heritage Society.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Pageant of Newcraighall Mining Community’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1546/