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If you are looking for internal links, on this page is a list of all pages of this site, to help you navigate.
The external links below may be of interest to users of this site. Please note that the links in the headings take you to the sites of other organisations, for which we can take no responsibility.
Promoting heritage, shaping tomorrow. (The blue plaque at the foot of this page is by York Civic Trust.) This page in the Archive shows many of York's historic streets.
The Guilds of York have presented the York Mystery Plays on wagons in the streets of the city in several four-yearly cycles, most recently in September 2018 and in June 2022.
The City Archive (held in York Explore, Library Square) has some Mystery Play material, such as this painting by historian Eileen White. It featured in the York 800 exhibition described in this page. She has published a general history of the Mystery Plays, one of the many books held in the NCEM's archive.
The Theatre was the venue for the Mystery Plays in 1992 and 1996. In 2012 YTR produced the Plays in Museum Gardens.
The original funder of this website.
Interior below right. Setting of the Millennium production and the 2016 production. Dean's Park is a regular location for the wagon plays and in 2021 A Resurrection for York.
Performers of early music in York since 1977. Here pictured outside York Minster.
The National Centre for Early Music
Home of the Mystery Play Archive, of Early Music Festivals and of all sorts of music.
York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust
A membership group of enthusiasts and actors which supports productions of the Play. In December 2019 they produced A Nativity for York from the 8 traditional scripts; in July 2021 the group produced A Resurrection for York.The Taborers' Society, one of the bands accompanying Mystery Play wagons in June 2022.
Acoustic Research site supported by the British Academy
Visit York The site for York tourism. If you want some images of the city, search 'York streets' in the archive
Opened in 1830 by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, until 1961 the owners of Museum Gardens and St Mary's Abbey and therefore enablers of the 1909 pageant and the 1951 Plays revival. The Museum is now owned by York Museums Trust, partners in the 2012 Museum Gardens production.
York Archaeology (YAT) runs Jorvik Viking Centre, Barley Hall, DIG, Micklegate Bar Museum and Monk Bar Museum in York. Friends of YAT have free entry to all five attractions. Among the charity's publications is Nicola Rogers' 2012 Medieval Craft and Mystery, about the Guilds of York and their medieval performances of the Plays.
York Settlement Community Players
Set up in 1919, this still-thriving York acting group gave Judi Dench her first taste of Mystery Play performance.
The Film Archive has many films about York, and about the Mystery Plays and other drama. For instance, a 60 minute film made by Patrick Olsen about the 1973 Mystery Plays: Film ID 2041.
Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society
Founded in 1842 to explore civic and ecclesiastical history. Their 2017 York Historian has a major article about York Mystery Plays.
Association of Voluntary Guides to York
This group of expert guides began leading free tours in York the same year as the modern Mystery Plays were revived. If you join a walk, ask your guide about the Plays!
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