I just stumbled across references to a BBC anthology series called Festival from 1963 and 1964, which produced plays and dramatizations of fiction. One was Everyman in 1964. I’m including a link to details of the production, but I can’t find anywhere that video is available. Given the caliber of writers and actors listed in the other episodes, I imagine this was a serious and interesting production. Does anyone know if video is available from the BBC or elsewhere? Even though I’m no longer teaching, I’d love to see it, and those of you who might be teaching drama this coming academic year might find it useful.

I also saw in today’s paper an AP story about a production currently in NYC of series of seven short plays, “The Seven Deadly Sins,” produced by NY-based Venezuelan artist Moisès Kaufman. These are not allegorical, so not strictly morality plays, but next time you teach medieval drama, they’d be a good example of the persistence of the medieval concept, both moral and theatrical, and the staging is geared for Covid, being performed in abandoned storefronts in the Manhattan Meatpacking District behind display windows, with the audience outside listening on headphones, which could also be a nice parallel with Black Plague theater.

The plays are “Pride” and “Greed” by Kaufman, “Envy” by Jeffrey La-Hoste, “Wrath” by Ming Peiffer, “Sloth” by Thomas Bradshaw, “Gluttony” by Ngozi Anyanwu, and “Lust” by Bess Wohl.