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Visit the Chester 2010 Website -- http://chester.uwaterloo.ca *PERFORMANCE* *CREATION TO JUDGEMENT - THREE DAYS - TWENTY-THREE PLAYS* May 22 1pm. May 23 1pm. May 24 8am VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PWYC During the reign of Elizabeth I, the citizens of Chester performed their ancient Catholic cycle of Biblical plays each year at Whitsuntide. From the Fall of Lucifer before Creation to the Last Judgment, each episode - performed on a wagon - rolled through the city streets in a three-day celebration of the old religion. In 1572, fearing the plays would cause "peril and danger to her majesty" in the form of a Catholic rebellion, Protestant preacher Christopher Goodman demanded they be banned. Experience a new version of the Chester Cycle based on Goodman’s description. Over three days, a cast of over 300 will perform all twenty-three plays on the legendary PLS wagons at three viewing stations around Victoria College, University of Toronto. To see all the plays, come all three days. *SYMPOSIUM* *DRAMA AND RELIGION 1555-1575: THE CHESTER CYCLE IN CONTEXT* May 21-24, 2010 (Register by May 7) The Chester 2010 Symposium explores the Chester Cycle in its original context, and in the context of the concurrent Chester 2010 research-based Performance. We welcome registrants from the general public as well as registrants affiliated with academic institutions. The program, in brief, includes a keynote address by Professor Paul Whitfield White (Purdue) and introductory addresses by Professors JoAnna Dutka (Toronto) and Alexandra Johnston (Toronto). Panel presentations include sessions on the Audience, the City, Faith and Doubt, and Text and Dramaturgy, and a special presentation by the Mapping Medieval Chester project, sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. The concluding round-table discussion will consider the Chester 2010 Performance. http://chester.uwaterloo.ca -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ 170 St George St Ste. 810/ Toronto Ontario Canada/ M5R 2M8 Telephone: 416-978-6500 (after 04/01/2010) / FAX: 416-978-6504 (as of 16/12/2009) [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page