Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2019: Creation & Fall

This play was part of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle performed at St Edmund Hall on 27 April 2019. For further information about all the plays and performers, please visit www.seh.ox.ac.uk/mystery-cycle.
Summary of the Play
We will perform a shortened version of a single pageant which features in the 15th century East Anglian N-Town cycle. After God has created the world, the downfall of the angel Lucifer anticipates the fall of humankind when Adam and Eve eat the apple. Or was it really a fig? Or a pomegranate? At all events, we human beings will never live in paradise again. We do not know exactly how or where this pageant was first performed. Although the play was not originally written for a three-person God, our staging points up aspects of the text that were important in the 15th century. And of course God is female; we all know that.
Cast
God the Father - Hilary Pearson
God the Son - Deborah Burrows
God the Holy Ghost - Marianne Puxley
Lucifer/Serpent - Andrew Stilborn
Angels - Fiona Nevola, Martin Noble
Adam - Nicola Borthwick
Eve - Laurence Nagy
Heralds - Lesley Smith and Karl Kinsella
Musicians - members of the Ghaetta ensemble:
Penny Terry - crumhorn, flute, recorder
Suzanne Higgins - concertina
Val O’Sullivan - bladder pipe, recorder
Ann Clarke - cortol, recorder
Annabel Donat - lute harp
Andrew Harvey - frame drum
Sophia Welsh - fiddle
Henrike Lähnemann - trumpet
Andrew Honey - bell ringer
Director - David Wiles
Producer on behalf of Living Stones - Penny Tyack