2026: Welcome to the Festival
Our friends at Welcome to Yorkshire have put together this terrific overview of the festival.
Thanks so much!
https://www.yorkshire.com/arts-and-culture/what-is-the-york-mystery-plays-festival-2026/
Archive 2018: Q&A with Nina Ramirez
We have been joined by the talented British art and cultural historian and TV presenter, Nina Ramirez who is getting involved in this year’s York Mystery Plays. We decided to ask her a few questions about why she is getting involved and the connections she has with both the city of York and the Plays…here’s what we learned!
Archive 2018 Guest Blog: Pocklington School, Ravens Morris and the York Mystery Plays
Pocklington School, Ravens Morris and the York Mystery Plays Alan Heaven, director Judgement Day Through Pocklington School I have been involved with the plays for 12 years, and have thoroughly enjoyed the remarkable opportunity it has given us to perform York’s own plays in front of thousands. The School’s connection began in 2006 when…
Archive 2018: On the Trail of the Mysteries by Eleanor Bloomfield
‘Have you come far?’ asked the volunteer ‘Mystery Maker’ in charge of selling programmes. Yes, I had come far, twelve thousand miles: from New Zealand to England, Auckland to York, I had come to see the York Mystery Plays staged in the Minster. York Minster in the Middle Ages was one of England’s great pilgrimage cathedrals; now, half a millennium later, I had come on my own personal pilgrimage to see the plays performed live after several years of studying them from the other side of the world.
Archive 2018: Modern Mysteries from Riding Lights
This month the Youth Theatre at Riding Lights are putting on a set of Plays as a part of the York Mystery Plays. Here we hear from Abi Oscroft, the Youth Theatre Director.