Medieval Dramaturgy Post #1.

My theatre company has decided to add on of the plays from The York Cycle, titled The Shipwright's Play: The Building of the Ark. We are combining our talents with other local theatre companies in the area to put on a few of the plays from The York Cycle in as close to the traditional production techniques that were used during the time. 

Just to give you a bit more information about cycle plays, in general.  According to ORO, cycle plays are, “a group of works, usually narrative poems, that either share a common theme or subject (e.g. the Trojan war, Charlemagne, the Knights of the Round Table), or are linked together as a sequence. In addition to epics, sagas, romances and chansons de geste , which scholars have categorized into different cycles, the mystery plays of the Middle Ages that were performed as a sequence during the same festival at a particular place are referred to as the York Cycle, the Chester Cycle, etc. The term is also applied to sequences of sonnets by the same author, and sometimes to sequences of novels or stories.” (ORO, cycle plays 1^st definition)


Here is a link to a digital copy of the script we will be using. https://courses.cwu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_4_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_56297_1%26url%3D