Hearing the York Mystery Plays
Speaker: Mariana Lopez

Experimental acoustic equipment in the city centre

• Monday 24 June 2013, 6.30PM
• Free admission
  Booking required, see below for tickets
• Seebohm Rowntree ATB/057, University of York (See locations page)

Event details

The York Mystery Plays is a series of forty-eight plays which were performed in York from the 14th to the 16th century.  The plays were performed on wagons that stopped at twelve stations (street spaces), which were located in different parts of the city.  The York Mystery Plays have been the subject of extensive research and questions regarding their staging have never failed to intrigue scholars.  The stage directions are sparse and the documentation regarding staging is almost non-existent, making it necessary for the theories developed to draw information from different fields to attempt to arrive at a better understanding of the plays and their staging.

Speaker biography

Mariana Lopez has a background in music and sound design, having been awarded a BA degree in Arts with specialisation in Music (University of Buenos Aires) and an MA degree in Postproduction with specialisation in Sound Design (University of York). She is currently completing her doctoral studies at the University of York. She is also a tutor at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television and the Centre for Lifelong Learning (University of York).

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