Christmas Revels® 2007 |
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This year we travel to historic Haddon Hall!
There’ll be nothing scary about it, but in 2007 ghosts will sing and dance and mum their way through the Christmas Revels. We’ll be in Haddon Hall, ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland. This splendidly restored castle, on land originally deeded by William the Conqueror to an illegitimate son and now a National Trust Property in England, was abandoned in 1703 and not lived in until the 1920s, when the Ninth Duke of Rutland decided to restore it. In our show, this long period of emptiness will be broken as the Duke and his wife and children enter to take a last look before the castle is to be sold to make way for a modern highway. Amid the cobwebs, dust, and drop-cloths, they meet a figure from the past, dressed in motley and worried that “they’ll all be coming” and he must pre-pare the place. “They” are those who, down through theages, have come to the hall every winter solstice for 200 years to have their Revels. The duke’s statement that the place is to be sold shocks them, for when Haddon Hall goes out of the family, they can no longer return there. As the songs and dances and comedy unfold, the spirits work to persuade him that the solstice celebrations are too important to be lost. Save Haddon Hall! Mark your calendar for December 7-9 and 13-16 and look for the ticket flier coming your way in the Fall. Performance Schedule
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