… A timely event for parts of the UK on the verge of ‘opening-up’ after lockdown: this weekend, the York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust is staging ‘A Resurrection for York’. This production will stage an adaptation of the Resurrection sequence from the York’s medieval mystery play cycle. The event will be staged on pageant wagons […]
The York Mystery Plays Supporters’ Trust will be holding a fundraising event tomorrow evening, 31st December, All Hallow’s Eve. Join us at Bedern Hall in York this Thursday evening from 7pm, for ‘evening of fun and all things Mystery!’. Dr Diana Wyatt and Dr Mark Chambers from Durham University will be representing Records of Early […]
The Records of Early English Drama North East team have a long association with the York Mystery Plays – not least when they visited us in Durham to perform The Crucifixion as part of our Theatrum Mundi celebrations. But now the York Festival Trust need your help to maintain their long tradition of putting on […]
The York Festival Trust have announced the line-up and call for performers for this summer’s production of ‘The Mystery Plays’. More information may be found here: http://www.yorkmysteryplays.co.ukhttps://mailchi.mp/314d584067d3/our-20th-year-is-all-coming-together?e=c397237b85
Here are some more scenes from the 2014 York Mystery Plays, taken from the second Sunday of performance (20th July). They show: 1. The Baptism of Christ, St. Sampson’s Square (NOT an advert for Pizza Express!), brought forth by HIDDen Theatre Company (John the Baptist: Mark Burghagen; Jesus: Ehren Mierau; God: Charles Hunt; Angel 1: […]
Here are some photos of last Sunday’s York Mystery Plays (13 July 2014). They include: 1. The procession of The Shepherds’ Play, by the The Guild of Scriveners, showing the pageant wagon and a team of angels (processing up Minister Yard towards Deangate) 2. Christ before Annas and Caiaphas, by The Company of Cordwainers in […]