Chester Cycle

I spent much of the long weekend seeing the PLS production of the Chester Cycle at Victoria College.

It's not the first time I've seen it -- I also attended the 1983 performance of the cycle (just after I finished graduate school -- it was the weekend after I got back up to Toronto).  (I think I've seen all of the major productions with the exception of Castle of Perseveraunce and the 1977 York Cycle; I've also been in two of the cycles since -- the Towneley Cycle in 1985 and the second York performance in 1998).

It was a pleasant experience; I managed to get in all of the plays.  I did find that sometimes the modernizaed texts were a little grating -- for example, frequent line-ending use of "everyone" which dropped a syllable from "everichon", or rhymes which have drifted out of kilter -- but it would have been too difficult to have the authentic texts done.

From Chester Cycle

This is the Adam and Eve, showing the balcony model which reflects the use of the building balconies on the route in mediaeval Chester.

I also picked up a copy of Le Mystère d'Adam from a mini-Vic Book Sale which seems to have belonged to David Parry.