Exploring: Coventry Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors

Episode 243,   Dec 23, 2022, 09:00 AM

Exploring the Coventry mystery plays 1

Merry Christmas everyone!
First of a two part Christmas release, a look at the surviving Coventry Mystery plays. This play covers the Nativity through to the slaughter of the innocents.

With Stephen Longstaffe as First Shepherd, Herod; Francis Cox as Second Shepherd, Second King; Eric Karoulla as Third Shepherd, Third King; Lois Potter as Gabriel, Second Woman; Liza Graham as Second Prophet, First Woman; Alan Scott as Prologue (Isaiah), Herald; Sarah Blake as Mary; Daniel Yabut as Joseph; Lynn Freitas as Angel (1st), Third Woman; Helen Good as Second Angel, Second Soldier; Valentina Vinci as First Prophet, First King, First Soldier.

The host was Robert Crighton. 

First released on our YouTube channel - https://youtu.be/LksJtWk0IaI

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