137: Exploring: N-Town, Plays 1 and 2 (Again!)

<div>Exploring: The N-Town Play, a slow burn look at a medieval Mystery (sort of) cycle. The N-Town Play comes to us as a single manuscript, but it's a compilation of various different sources - including elements from what looks like a cycle and various other large scale productions focusing on episodes from the Bible. <br> The journey continues - in that we actually start all over again! We return to plays 1 and 2 as well as the relevant banns over a couple of sessions, trying to dig a little deeper into the text and think about staging. Go back a few episodes to see how far we've come, or go even further with some of the below links. There are quite a few...<br> For play 1, you can compare this play with our work on other fall of Lucifer plays - an Exploring session of Chester <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/2158551-chester-plays-1-1-the-fall-of-lucifer">https://audioboom.com/posts/2158551-chester-plays-1-1-the-fall-of-lucifer</a> (there's a part two, too) or our rough full cast audio adaptation here <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/3529283-the-fall-of-lucifer-chester-mystery-cycle">https://audioboom.com/posts/3529283-the-fall-of-lucifer-chester-mystery-cycle</a> More variations exist and we'll get to them anon.<br> For play two - <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/2449437-chester-plays-2-1-adam-and-eve">https://audioboom.com/posts/2449437-chester-plays-2-1-adam-and-eve</a> (there's a part two, too) or our rough full cast audio adaptation here <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/6379457-adam-and-eve-chester-mystery-cycle">https://audioboom.com/posts/6379457-adam-and-eve-chester-mystery-cycle</a>. And there are other variations coming in the next few months - so hang on in there.<br> The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode were Liz Cole, Richard Fawcett, Mark Scanlon, Alan Scott and Maria Walker – with host, Robert Crighton.<br> There are various online and purchasable versions available - here's a good one, but is in the original middle English and might put you off - others should be hunted