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Programmes/Posters : 1984 Programmes
Item type: Programmes/PostersArchive reference: YMP/B/12
Date/year: 1984
Description: This reference is the general name for the programmes held for the 1984 Mystery Plays production. For the cast list, see this entry.
The brochure for the York Festival that year, besides saying that there would be Mystery Play productions in the Museum Gardens, also contains:
WAGON PLAYS will be performed in the traditional style outside York Minster. The Lords of Misrule will present 'The Confessions of the Seven Deadly Sins' at 1pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School will present 'The Harrowing of Hell' at 4.30 and 5pm Mondays to Saturdays, 2.30 and 3.15pm Sundays (cast list below). In addition Nunthorpe Grammar School will perform 'Trifles from York' in the Museum Gardens at 4.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The archive has a photograph of the above 'Harrowing of Hell' wagon but has no information about the other two productions.
The cast list for the wagon play Harrowing of Hell was as follows:
Jesus: Tim Lamont
Archangele Michael: Grace Ayer
Angels: Andrew Hamer. David Wykes
Adam: John Atkin
Archangele Michael: Grace Ayer
Angels: Andrew Hamer. David Wykes
Adam: John Atkin
Eve: Robert Drysdale [sic on programme printed 1999 in the archive]
Moses: Brian Mitchell
David: Nick Currey
Isaiah: Miles Lockwood
John the Baptist: Lincoln Taylor
Simeon: Matthew Hunter
Satan: Frank Beckwith
Beelzebub/Belial: Simon Renton
Devils: Stuart Anderson, Leigh Jackson, Craig McWilliam, Richard Mook, Fred Peebles, Glen Pinder, Sean Ramsdale, Adam Reid, Paul Wardell, Andrew Young.
Play produced by Keith Daggett
Setting designed constructed and painted by Alan Taylor, Tim Marvell, Keith Daggett, Michael Clarke and Stephen Arksey
Wardrobe mistress Kay DeLittle, with additions by Hazel Baker
Devils costumes and properties by Tim Marvell
Music by Barry Russell and performed by members of Holgate School
Cast from the staff and pupils of Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School by kind permission of Headmaster Dr J M Frost BA
Moses: Brian Mitchell
David: Nick Currey
Isaiah: Miles Lockwood
John the Baptist: Lincoln Taylor
Simeon: Matthew Hunter
Satan: Frank Beckwith
Beelzebub/Belial: Simon Renton
Devils: Stuart Anderson, Leigh Jackson, Craig McWilliam, Richard Mook, Fred Peebles, Glen Pinder, Sean Ramsdale, Adam Reid, Paul Wardell, Andrew Young.
Play produced by Keith Daggett
Setting designed constructed and painted by Alan Taylor, Tim Marvell, Keith Daggett, Michael Clarke and Stephen Arksey
Wardrobe mistress Kay DeLittle, with additions by Hazel Baker
Devils costumes and properties by Tim Marvell
Music by Barry Russell and performed by members of Holgate School
Cast from the staff and pupils of Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School by kind permission of Headmaster Dr J M Frost BA
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