2024 - Baptism and Nativity Plays
The York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust, launched in 2012 by local performers in that Museum Gardens production, describes the Plays as "a jewel of York's literary history and culture". Members support any production of the York Mystery Plays, including a play at the four-yearly wagon Pageant, and produce their own events.
In summer 2024 three plays, each directed by a different director, were performed in three venues. The Creation of the World in St Columba's Priory; the Fall of Man in Holy Trinity Micklegate; Cain and Abel in St Martin's Micklegate. Respectively the Directors were Katie Smith, Dan Norman and Isobel Staton. Below are images from each location.
The world is being created (left) and an elephant (right).
Adam and Eve are advised by an angel (left) but Eve is being tempted by the snake (right).
Cain and Abel are disputing(left) and Cain regrets killing Abel (right).
Paul Toy was the Director of the 2024 Nativity Plays in the Tithe Barn Nether Poppleton, St James the Deacon, Acomb and St Oswald's Church Hall, Fulford.