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Article: Theatre: York Cycle of Mystery Plays York Theatre Royal
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 12, 1996
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Like the World Cup and the Olympics, the York Cycle of Mystery
Plays comes round once every four years, performed in its native
town by a large cast of predominantly amateur locals who thereby
offer an approximate equivalent of the medieval craft guilds who
originally mounted these biblical dramas. Every four years, too,
there seems to be an obligatory press controversy. When I last saw
the cycle in 1988, the talking-point was that the Jesus was a
professional Hindu actor brought over from India. This year, the
chattering classes have got their chasubles in a twist over the
casting of a woman as God the Father.
Well, sexual equality means having to take the rough with the
smooth and ...