The Pace Egg plays are traditional village plays, which used to be common throughout the Pennines of North and East Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria, at Easter, usually on Good Friday. Performed for hundreds of years the scripts have evolved in each location but they all contain common or similar characters from life, history and mythology and the general theme is good triumphing over evil, with 're-birth' and fertility mixed in there too (a common theme at spring time). St. George is the central figure but there is a wonderful blending of pagan and Christian beliefs.

It is thought that 'pace egg' plays once occurred throughout England but they are now confined to a few locations, however the play is undergoing a small but enthusiastic revival in several locations particularly in the Upper Calder Valley of West Yorkshire. Here it can be seen on 'Good Friday', in various villages. In one of the versions a character called 'Toss-pot', will hand out eggs for kisses. Should you accept the egg and give him a kiss you will become pregnant in the following year.