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A performance of the plays, taken from the audience seating
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Jesus (John-Stuart Anderson) is lowered from the Cross
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Workmen assembling scaffolding
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Photographs : 1973 Press photographs
Item type: PhotographsArchive reference: YMP/A/8/1
Date/year: 1973
Description: Yorkshire Evening Press Photographs of 1973 Mystery Plays Production.
1. 12/06/1973 Jesus (John-Stuart Anderson) is lowered from the Cross. Caption: 'The agony over, Christ's body is taken down from the Cross by his faithful disciples (below).'
2. 18/04/1973 and 06/07/1973 (Festival Souvenir) Captions: 'Workmen assembling the scaffolding in the Museum Gardens which is to form the seating for the Mystery Plays in June.' and 'ABOVE: Workmen assembling the scaffolding in the Museum Gardens which formed the seating for the York Mystery Plays.'
3. 06/07/1973 A performance of the plays, taken from the audience seating. Caption: St Mary's Abbey makes a majestic backcloth for the Mystery Plays in the Museum Gardens. The plays are the centrepiece of the city's three-week festival.
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