Rabble is a Folk Theatre Company based around Maidstone and Ashford in Kent.
We perform traditional (and not so traditional) mumming plays and street theatre. We dance in the Border Morris style - wild and loud and with high energy - and we sing and play music too.
Rabble has been performing at festivals, pubs and traditional events around the south-east since 1994.
Follow this link for more information and forthcoming performances:
"Tree-Dressing Day"
Rabble will be performing traditional Yuletide Mumming Plays and dancing
at The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, West Sussex
on Sunday December 2nd. from about midday.
As the daylight fades, Rabble lead a procession around the site, to two tall trees in a meadow, where lanterns and decorations are hung in the branches to "dress" the tree. As the musicians play, everyone joins hands for an amazing spiral dance around the trees, weaving in and then out again below the branches decked with lights. Real, living magic!
Dancing in the "Village Square"
The Holly King and the Oak King
fight - Mumming Play style.
The Procession begins
The Tree dressed with Lights
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Rabble at Hastings "Jack in the Green" Festival 2005
Rabble at Bodiam Castle, Beltane (1st. May) 2006
The Holly King and the Oak King - at The Weald and Downland Museum
Singleton, West Sussex, December 2005
Hastings 2007, a wet and windy May!
Rabble braving the gale, Hastings sea-front, May 07
Benjamin with the banner , Hastings, May 07.
Adam and tankard, Hastings, May 07.
Nick and Colin, Hastings, May 07
"Traffic Jam", Hastings Old Town, May 07
