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drama (1999) mystery (1232) medieval (742) mediaeval (24)
We are an amateur-drama group founded in 1946 and specialising in medieval drama, specifically the cycles of mystery plays based on stories from the Bible. These were performed annually by the trade guilds at the midsummer festival of Corpus Christi until they fell into disfavour, casualties of the Reformation some 500 years ago.
Only four texts survive substantially intact, plus fragments from other cycles, and it is from those four – Wakefield, York, Chester and Corpus Christi (n-Town) – that we draw the bulk of our material, presenting a selection from each in turn, year by year. Every fifth year the production, dubbed The Director's Choice , gives the director licence to mix-and-match the plays, which gives us the opportunity to perform scenes from the fragmentary cycles.
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