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This sounds pretty far fetched on the face of it, at least for English guild-sponsored drama, but I thought I would post it to the group and see what happened! A. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:35:14 -0700 From: Jesse Hurlbut <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PERFORM <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Actors from death row I've read in a couple of places (I'm trying to remember where) that in some instances, condemned criminels participated in medieval mystery plays--their own execution lending dramatic realism to the depiction of a martyrdom scene. Is this verifiably true? do we have documented instances of this practice? Are there also other ways in which the very real become part of the 'play' like this? [log in to unmask]