A Pageant of Moravian Missions
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Sue Falkiner of Leeds Central Library.
Performances
Place: Fulneck School (Pudsey) (Pudsey, Yorkshire, West Riding, England)
Year: 1932
Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors
Number of performances: 2
Notes
23 and 30 July 1932
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Bairstow, W.
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Object of any funds raised
- Pre-War Missionaries' Pension Fund [of the Moravian Church].
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Pageant outline
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Leeds Central Library holds a copy of the pageant script.
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Summary
Historical pageants were popular with religious groups across the twentieth century. This is an example of one such pageant. Staged by the Fulneck Girls' School of the Moravian settlement in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, the pageant dramatised the missionary activity conducted by the eponymous church, one of the oldest Protestant denominations. The focus was on the fairly distant past, since the action concluded in the mid-eighteenth century with an episode entitled 'Among Eskimos in Labrador about 1755'. Both performances of the pageant were held outdoors, in the grounds of the school, with proceeds going to the church's pension fund for retired missionaries.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘A Pageant of Moravian Missions’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1587/