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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.
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.
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| 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.