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Press Cuttings : The Times 1992, John Hall
Item type: Press CuttingsArchive reference: YMP/F/13/1/1
Date/year: 1992
Description: Article by Peter Davenport in the Times 31 January 1992 headed 'Queue here for a chance to play God' below. The photograph is of local York actor John M Hall, who auditioned to play God or Lucifer, in the Mystery Plays which that year were in York Theatre Royal.
In fact he was given the role of Herod - the Herod who is present at Jesus' birth and again before the Crucifixion.
![John M Hall 1992 John M Hall 1992](/uploads/mystery/mainsite/images/photos/JohnHallaudition1992.jpg)
He played Herod again in 1996, and in 2000 in York Minster played God. In 1998 he acted with York Settlement Community Players in the wagon plays that year - in the Last Judgement he was God.
He was interviewed for the archive in the NCEM in 2001. In 2011 John was interviewed for his memories about the Plays for a 2012 exhibition by City of York Archives. One of his lines about 'pigeons being struck by lightening' became a headline of that exhibition. Here is a link to the webpage about the exhibition. Here is a link to an archive entry with the 2011 interview.
Here is a PDF with the transcript of the interview in April 2001, conducted by Mike Tyler.
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