Exploring Chester Play 12
Episode 68, May 16, 2019, 10:27 AM
Exploring the Chester Mystery Cycle - Play 12
The Bowchers Play, The Temptation & the Woman Taken in Adultery
From our Exploring workshop, where we read through the text of this play for future use towards an audio/stage show.
We're playing around with how to make these pieces come alive for people today, starting with these recordings of reads through and workshops.
The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode are The Irregulars were Liz Cole as Satan and others, Richard Fawcett as Jesus, with Mark Scanlon and Mark Holtom as various others – with host, Robert Crighton.
There are more versions of the Chester plays than you can shake a stick at - (actually there are eight) - so any text you use to follow will probably be a bit different to ours (for the sticklers, our base text was H, except for play five, where it was just easier to go for a group text (D-or Hm, A, R, B) composite - though some readings may have been borrowed from all). However, you don't necessarily need to worry about such things, so here's a nice friendly modern spelling version we found online. http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/plspls/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/index.html
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