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Photographs : 1998 York Early Music Foundation photographs

Item type: Photographs
Archive reference: YMP/A/16/4
Date/year: 1998,2000
Description: Smaller photographs of the 1998 York Mystery Plays production.  This was during the York Early Music Festival, run by the York Early Music Foundation.  The Foundation is the parent body of the National Centre for Early Music in York, which officially opened in 2000.  (Image below)

1. Adam (John Major) and Eve (Barbara Adams) of the Poppleton Players. Eve hands the apple from the Tree of Knowledge to Adam.
2a-d. Creation Day 5 from the Guild of Building's Play 'The Creation of the World to the Fifth Day.' 2b and 2d show fish in the waters under the Earth.
3. Jenny Skeels (whose name is not in the 1998 programme and whose role is not known)
4. Death of Christ by Howdenshire Live Arts, showing Christ (Julian Rendall) and the two thieves (Matthew Pickering and Chris May) and Longinus (Martin Smith) (image below)
5. The Creation of Adam and Eve, The Wheldrake Players. Shows either Malcolm Smith as God or David Baker as Adam.