York Mystery Plays and the YMPST
Keeping the story alive
Supporting and maintaining the community tradition of the Mystery Plays in the city of York.
The History of
York Mystery Plays
The York Mystery Plays are a cycle of 48 pageants (individual plays) covering biblical events from Creation to the Last Judgement. Other Mystery Play cycles exist but York stands out as having the most complete.
Forthcoming York Mystery
Plays Productions
The next major production will be in the summer of 2022 when the York Festival Trust will “bring forth” the pageant of plays with wagons moving through a number of settings in the city centre. National circumstances permitting, YMPST aims to stage A Nativity for York in the Spurriergate Centre in December 2020.
YMPST Mystery
Plays Productions
The Trust staged the first of its own productions , the Entry to Jerusalem directed by Simon Tompsett , as part of the Wagon Play pageant of 2014. In 2018, again took part in the Waggon Play cycle with the Harrowing of Hell, directed by Ben Prusiner.
The York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust
YMPST was set up after the 2012 York Mystery Plays in Museum Gardens. We are a charitable incorporated organisation which exists to advance the education of the public in the medieval Mystery Plays of York.
The YMPST
Find out more about the YMPST, its goals and what it has achieved so far.
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