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Amateur actor as Christ, York Mystery Plays, 1969. In 1992, the York production was moved in a modern production to the York Theatre Royal, with Robson Green playing Christ and a script adapted by Liz Lochhead. The 1996 production in the same place was all-amateur, with the part of Jesus played by local solicitor Rory Mulvihill, and the script ...
A Medieval Nativity Pageant (York Mystery Plays; co-production with St Thomas’s Anglican Church) 2011 New Custom: A New Interlude, No Less Witty than Pleasant (co-production with the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama); To Seek a Child ( Chester Mystery Plays ; sponsored by Friends of the Creche at the Cathedral Church of St James)
York Plays: the Plays performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Lucy Toulmin Smith (1886). A Common-place Book of the Fifteenth Century: Containing a Religious Play and Poetry, Legal Forms, and Local Accounts. BiblioBazaar, LLC. ISBN 978-1-110-08120-2.
The mystery play developed, in some places, into a series of plays dealing with major events in the Christian calendar, from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. By the end of the 15th century, the practice of acting these plays in cycles on festival days was established in several parts of Europe.
Harrison's concept was to present the original stories as plays within plays, using as his characters the naïve but pious craftsmen and guild members, to some extent modernised to represent the trades of today—God, for example, created the world with the help of a real fork-lift truck— [4] acting out the parts of the story that their ...
By 1394, biblical plays were being performed in York, England. The usage of pageant wagons enabled performances to travel across the country to various communities throughout England. The plays attracted people to the towns, and communities benefited from the commercial trade. [2] The Mystery plays were banned nationally in the 16th century.
The play is often considered the best of Middle English Abraham plays, humane in its treatment of infanticide, inventive in its language; [1] Lucy Toulmin Smith, a nineteenth-century editor, found it to be superior to others of the period on the same subject and in the twentieth century George K. Anderson thought the play, its "human qualities ...
An adaptation of the plays was performed at London's National Theatre under the title of 'The Mysteries' first in 1977. in 1985, it was filmed and broadcast for Channel 4. [10] As part of Wakefield's centenary celebrations in 1988, Adrian Henri was commissioned to do a modern adaptation of the Wakefield Medieval Mystery Plays. Simple vernacular ...