Chester Cycle 2010 - Conference and Production May 21-24, 2010

[Luella Massey]

Visit the Chester 2010 Website -- http://chester.uwaterloo.ca

*PERFORMANCE*
*CREATION TO JUDGEMENT - THREE DAYS - TWENTY-THREE PLAYS*
May 22 1pm. May 23 1pm. May 24 8am
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
PWYC

During the reign of Elizabeth I, the citizens of Chester performed their 
ancient Catholic cycle of Biblical plays each year at Whitsuntide. From 
the Fall of Lucifer before Creation to the Last Judgment, each episode - 
performed on a wagon - rolled through the city streets in a three-day 
celebration of the old religion. In 1572, fearing the plays would cause 
"peril and danger to her majesty" in the form of a Catholic rebellion, 
Protestant preacher Christopher Goodman demanded they be banned.

Experience a new version of the Chester Cycle based on Goodman's 
description. Over three days, a cast of over 300 will perform all 
twenty-three plays on the legendary PLS wagons at three viewing stations 
around Victoria College, University of Toronto. To see all the plays, 
come all three days.

*SYMPOSIUM*
*DRAMA AND RELIGION 1555-1575: THE CHESTER CYCLE IN CONTEXT*
May 21-24, 2010
(Register by May 7)


The Chester 2010 Symposium explores the Chester Cycle in its original 
context, and in the context of the concurrent Chester 2010 
research-based Performance. We welcome registrants from the general 
public as well as registrants affiliated with academic institutions.

The program, in brief, includes a keynote address by Professor Paul 
Whitfield White (Purdue) and introductory addresses by Professors JoAnna 
Dutka (Toronto) and Alexandra Johnston (Toronto). Panel presentations 
include sessions on the Audience, the City, Faith and Doubt, and Text 
and Dramaturgy, and a special presentation by the Mapping Medieval 
Chester project, sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance 
Studies. The concluding round-table discussion will consider the Chester 
2010 Performance.

http://chester.uwaterloo.ca

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