GREAT NATIONAL PAGEANT.
Mil LOUIS PARKER'S SCHEME To portray faithfully in realistic and most gorgeous fa&hiicn all the more importaut historical events in. the story of England in one .groat national pageant — such is the colossal scheme, which, if the inlieren.t difficulties can be ©varooune, Mr Louis N. Parker, the wellknown dramatist and master of p«-yc-' ■nant«s, hopes to ticcompliivh in. 191.0. Mr Parker, who organised and directed: the highly ftuoctttiul pageants at Sh-eiborme mid Wiamv:ick, wLU produce another tit Bury St .Edmunds in July, and this will bo followed by one at Dorer next year, and, in. all probability, by oaie at Golchtister the year after. The "Pageamt of England " would be a national -review on v gigantic scale, illxioffcrating the dievelo-piment of the nations history. There would be the mctst important and pJcbitresqua scenes from the previous displays, performed by the original actons, and tlhere would also be. additional eceiios in. order that the moving story mi^ht be made complete. ° With the Kitcceesful accomplishment of this task it is understood that Mr Parker will cLotse his pageant career. Owing to< the enormous amount of timo the pageants take to prepare, and their usedeesmeeis when, they are oneo> over — although they are very interesting and instructive — they iar>e far from being remunerative to the author. The MS-, of a pageant, in" fact, is equivalent to that of a five-act play, and the whole thing involves fifteen months' ha,rd work. The Bury St Edimunds pageant, a "Folk Play," will- be. performed on July 8 and the five following diayfi. The site, a peculiarly appropriate one, will be the grounds of the abbey, aurl a more panoramic plan than that of Sherboirne or "Wairwick will ho adopted. There will be nearly 2'ooO pen-formers, an, cnxsheebra of 100, and the sixty mcwiks Who* will take part will all be clergymen of" various denominations * from the neighbourhood.
GREAT NATIONAL PAGEANT.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 8942, 30 May 1907, Page 2
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