King's Manor, YorkLarge-scale community play has Henry VIII cancelling the city's beloved Mystery Plays as a clever framing device in a striking adaptation There's more than one kind of mystery at play in this adaptation of CJ Sansom's historical crime novel. The scene opens not on Matthew Shardlake, Sansom's lawyer-detective protagonist, but on a centuries-old local theatrical tradition: the York Mystery Plays, perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AM on July 20, 2023