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![]() The illustration above is that of The Saracen's Head in Warburton, the home of the Warburton Souling Play. |
Welcome
to The
Warburton Souling Play.
This website is all about the Warburton Souling Play and it's revival. You'll find details about the history of the play, the background to its revival together with details of its performance up to the present time. We've also included some brief details about Warburton Parish. The Play's revival era is broadly split up into three periods. First we have the Revival years roughly defined as 1978 up to 1990, the Present Day covers the three most recent years and the Post Revival covers the period between. |
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Souling in 2009
That's it for another year! The Warburton Souling Play has been out and within Warburton and the surrounding areas starting with the first performance of the season at the Saracen's Head and concluding there 6 days later. You can read more about it on the 2009 Performances page. Tthis year the Play was performed during the first week of November and as the 1st November, the normal 'First Night' of the Play, falls on a Sunday this year we in fact started on Monday 2nd instead.
In summary following the first night we took the Play to a very very quiet Knutsford on Wednesday followed by a much more well attended Lymm and Urmston on Thursday. Our penultimate night around Hale, Ashley Timperley and Altrincham was just superb and broke all previous collection records for one night. The Saturday last tour of the year was the usual visit to the Autumn Fair at Warburton Church then visits to Little Bollington, Dunham, Heatley and Warburton. The season will conclude with the last performance in the Saracen's Head, Warburton, at around 9.30pm to be followed by the usual evening of song and music. The full itinerary can be found on the 2009 Season pages or directly here.
This year our chosen charity is the Multiple Sclerosis Society, a charity we have supported many times in the past. Whilst the continuation of the Play is our prime objective any funds we can donate to charity always fills us with satisfaction and although this year with us performing the Play during the course of one week and thus a good number of the performances falling on the quieter mid week nights the collections were very good..
Since last year this website has had some attention paid to it as regards a general tidy up and revamp of some sections. Hopefully what you'll find now is a more logical layout to the site with the various years since the Play's revival covered in three distinct categories. We have defined the 'revival period' as that covering from when the Warburton Souling Play was revived in 1978 up until 1990. After this we have the subsequent years up until three yeas ago as the 'post revival period'. This year, and the two previous, are then covered in the 'present' pages.
The general background pages have received a slight structural change, otherwise all the information found previously is still here - we just hope it's easier to find. If you're still unsure then the new Site Map should hopefully help.

Souling Site Updated: 9th November
2009.
This page updated: 9th November
2009.