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Well, strictly speaking, woman playing the woman who plays Noah’s wife. :-) Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Twycross, Meg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > WOMAN playing Noah's wife? > > Meg > > Professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies, > > Department of English and Creative Writing, > > Lancaster University, > > LANCASTER LA1 4YD > > > > From: REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Alan Baragona <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: 11 March 2020 02:51 > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [External] Modern play about medieval troupe performing Noah > > This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links or attachments. > > > > Today’s print version of The Washington Post has a review of a play by Jordan Harrison call > The Amateurs, which premiered in 2018. It's about a traveling troupe of medieval players who are performing a Noah play in a time of plague, especially focusing on the woman who is playing Noah's wife. Do any of you know of it? First I've heard of the > play or of the playwright. It sounds a bit reminiscent of the players in The Seventh Seal, and I'm a little surprised the review doesn't mention it. In earlier years, my wife and I would have jumped on I-81 and gone up to D.C. to see it, but between > the coronavirus and other things, there's no way we can get there before it closes on April 5. But I just like knowing this play exists, and I've preordered the volume of Harrison's plays that is coming out in July and will include it. > > > > > > > > > I don’t know that the Noah play being performed by the troupe is the Wakefield Master’s > Noah or, more likely given the opening as described in the review, is loosely based on it, but if either is the case, it makes a nice irony that the actor who plays the character who plays the wife is named “Townley,” just one <e> off! > > > > > > > > > For those of you who subscribe to the Post but may have missed the review, here is the link. > > > > > > > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/coronavirus-looms-over-this-play-set-during-a-plague-but-the-amateurs-speaks-to-timeless-concerns/2020/03/09/b06229a2-620f-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html > Alan Baragona > >