Charter Commemoration: The Drama of the Charter
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Carol Hill, Doncaster Local History Library.
Performances
Place: Unknown (Doncaster) (Doncaster, Yorkshire, West Riding, England)
Year: 1944
Indoors/outdoors: Unknown
Number of performances: 3
Notes
22-25 May 1944
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Steele, W. Hardy
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
750th anniversary of granting of Doncaster's first royal charter
Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
Civic exhibition
Pageant outline
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
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Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Doncaster Local History Library holds a copy of the official 750th Anniversary Souvenir, and a photocopy of the pageant programme.
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This pageant did not present a continuous narrative covering a long chronological period, but rather three key scenes from Doncaster's history. The pageant was held to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the granting of the first royal charter, by Richard I, on 22 May 1194. The exigencies of wartime meant that this was, a relatively small-scale pageant.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Charter Commemoration: The Drama of the Charter’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1560/