Calder High School only perform once in Weaver Square, in recent years at the end of the day.  The other 4 or 5 shows are performed by the Heptenstall Players. HB --- On Wed, 14/12/11, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: From: roy.stockdill@btinternet.com <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [WRY] Heptonstall To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, 14 December, 2011, 16:58 From:               Judith Varley <judith.varley@btinternet.com> > Hi List, > Good Friday is a good day to visit Heptonstall, this is the day when > the traditional Pace Egg Play is performed in the Weaver Square at > regular intervals during the day. > This play is said to be the oldest drama in the world dating back to > ancient Egypt. In it St George takes on contenders such as the Bold > Slasher , the Black Prince of Paradine and other outrages > characters well worth a visit > Judith         > My cousin Judith is quite right. The Pace Egg Play is performed by pupils from Calder High School, Mytholmroyd, on Good Friday, or at least it was when I lived there in the 1950s. In my day it was performed by the boys only but probably the cast is mixed these days. They also performed the play in other places in the Calder Valley, including Mytholmroyd, Midgley and Hebden Bridge as well as Heptonstall. Enter "Pace Egg Play" in Google for a full account of its tradition and history. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message