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Parish of Warburton History The Revival The Post Revival Period The Present Day Site Map |
 The illustration above is that of The Saracen's Head in Warburton, the home of the Warburton Souling Play. |
Welcome
to the Homepage of The
Warburton Souling Play
.
What you'll find here is a brief description of Warburton Parish, details about the history of the play as it is currently understood, the background to it's revival together with details of it's performance up to the present time. The Play's revival is broadly split up into three areas. First we have the Revival period roughly defined as 1978 up to 1990, Post Revival period covering 1991 up until three years ago and finally the Present Day covering those latest three years. |
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We're now mid way between our 2007 and 2008 Souling seasons and so it seemed an appropriate time to do some revisions to our website. Hopefully what you'll find is a more logical layout to the site with the various years since the play's revival covered in three distinct categories. We have the 'revival period' covering from when the Warburton Souling Play was revived in 1978 up until 1990. After this we have defined the subsequent years up until three yeas ago as the 'post revival period'. The last three years 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.
Last year's season was probably as good as it gets, even including an unusual evening around Mobberley, however, it concluded in what must be the best performance of the Play ever at the Saracen's Head in Warburton, Cheshire on Saturday 10th November.
2007 saw us selecting a new (to us) charity for our post performance collections, Cotebrook House in Lymm, a residential home for the disabled. We duly paid them a visit in the December 20th 2007 to present them with a cheque for £850.
Further details of how the year progressed are on the Souling 2007 page.
For those not familiar with the Play then please take time to have a look around to see what it's all about using the menus top left. The Parish of Warburton gives you an idea of where the Play comes from, History, a brief interpretation of this type of play and details of the Warburton play itself. For an alternative approach, you'll be able to get a good impression by looking at what we've got up to in the last few years by visiting the 'present' pages. And for those wanting to look further back, try the Past Galleries from where you'll find links to some much earlier seasons. This has recently been expanded to include 1986 & 1988. If you need help in tracking down a specific page or you're looking for specific information then try our new Site Map.
Souling Site Updated: 15th
April 2008.
This page updated: 15th
April 2008.