Doors 12:00pm | Show 1:00pm
All ages are welcome.
Free parking is available in the lot across the street until full.
This performance will be audio-described.
Midwinter Revels: Norse Fire
Artistic / Stage Director: Bruce Akpan Hostetler
Music Director: Daniel Buchanan
Children’s Director: Lynn Mendoza-Khan
Costume Design: Janelle Sutton
Lighting Design: Carl Faber
Scenic Design: Larry Larsen
Sound Design & Engineering: Daniel Congdon / Focal Audio
When Astrid discovers her Grandfather is close to death, she and the Norse God Jólnir set off on a journey through time and space to save him. But perhaps it isn’t Grandfather she needs to save.
A tale told with the music, story, and dance of Northern Europe.
What is the Midwinter Revels?
The Midwinter Revels is steeped in traditions of song, dance, poetry and performance. Here are a few traditions you’ll see almost every year.
A Midwinter Revels performance usually includes a mummer’s play. This comic and usually anachronistic enactment of death and rebirth finds its roots in celebrations held throughout Europe to mark important stages in the agricultural year. In the Midwinter Revels, the mummer’s play is another demonstration of the Midwinter Revels central theme: the descent into darkness and the return of the light. In a mummer’s play a hero usually fights a villain (traditionally a dragon), is killed, and then resurrected by magic. A Revels mummers play will often include a sword dance.