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Thanks for Theresa’s discussion. I assume she’s on the listserv, because I don’t have her personal e-mail address and wanted to send it The message to her. I would love to hear your comments, especially on 1) whether its version of the Noah play is close at all to the Towneley play and 2) what the playwright’s stand-in opines about the connection between medieval plays and the rise of individualism. Alan Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2020, at 9:39 AM, Michelle Markey Butler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I saw it on Friday. I can share observations, if you like. > > Btw Theresa Colletti participated in a panel discussion about making theater on the road, organized by Olney Theatre in connection to the production, and there's a video of the discussion on the theater's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/142692869075359/videos/200051651238352/ > > Cheers, > Michelle Butler > ____________________________________ > > Michelle Markey Butler > she/her/hers > michellemarkeybutler.com > facebook.com/michellemarkeybutler > > >> On Wed, 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 >> >>