O'Callahan has performed and recorded with John Langstaff and appeared several times in the character role of an ethnic storyteller in the Christmas Revels.
Langstaff and his daughter Carol started producing "The Christmas Revels" again in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971, at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, where it has frequently played to sold-out houses.
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Other traditions include ending every first half of the production with Sydney Carter's "Lord of the Dance" hymn.
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The Athenians may have been blending the cult of Bendis with the equally Dionysiac Thracian revels of Kotys, mentioned by Aeschylus.
James I of England granted the buildings to Lord Aubigny (removing the Revels Office to St. Peter's Hill), and it later passed to Sir William Cecil then to the Earl of Elgin.
Nocturnal Revels is a 1779 two-volume book about prostitution in 18th-century London during the reign of George II.
Daniel did well from the masque; he was made, firstly, a Groom of the Queen's Chamber and later a chamberlain; and the Queen gave him the job of licensing plays for the Children of the Chapel, the troupe of child actors that Anne had just taken into her patronage as the Children of the Queen's Revels.
The Hellfire Club once constructed a "Cave of Trophonius" with obscene wall-paintings in which to conduct their revels.