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Director solves Mystery staging

Mystery Plays
York Minster
3/5

PLAYS don’t get much more epic than depicting the biblical fall of the rebel angels through to the last judgement in three hours.

But designer Max Jones and writer Mike Poulton have confidently risen to the occasion with a production of the York Mystery Plays that’s ambitious yet relishes minor detail.

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