✨ Help us kick off the season with a one-of-a-kind holiday celebration as we explore world Nativity Plays in translation ✨ On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the Medieval World Drama Working Group (MWDWG) is expanding the regular meetup format with more play readings and festive treats. We’re celebrating the holiday season with cold readings of medieval … Continue reading 🎄✨ MWDWG Goes Festive With Readings of Medieval Nativity Plays ✨🎄
Back so soon? Next free international medieval play reading
Our next Medieval World Drama Working Group (MWDWG) meeting is earlier in the month than usual! We will meet next week, on Wednesday November 13 2024, at 5pm-6:30pm Eastern time, to read through some of Belcari’s Play of Abraham and Isaac, translated from the Italian, alongside the York Abraham. As always, we'll come to the … Continue reading Back so soon? Next free international medieval play reading
More free international medieval play readings!
Dive into medieval drama with the Medieval World Drama Working Group (MWDWG) and help us get ready for next year's major production of the complete York Plays! These cold readings are always a lot of fun and offer participants a chance to be the first to hear new translations of early plays. We suggest attending … Continue reading More free international medieval play readings!
Join us for more international medieval play readings!
Join PLS’s Medieval World Drama Working Group (MWDWG) for a new season of readings, designed to build toward our full-scale production of the medieval York Corpus Christi Plays in June 2025. This year, we will pair readings from the Middle English York Plays with global dramatic counterparts, to explore a deeper understanding of medieval drama … Continue reading Join us for more international medieval play readings!
MWDWG: Special Event in May/June 2024!
COMING FRI MAY 31 (7PM) ANDSAT JUNE 1 (5PM, after Q&A at 2:30PM):THE INFATUATED AND THE RAVISHINGa workshop reading of Muḥammad ibn Dāniyāl’s raunchy, shocking, queer shadow play from 13th/14th-century Cairoin a new translation into English by Prof. Li Guo (U Notre Dame)set into rhyme and rhythmic dialogue by Prof. Matthew Sergi (U Toronto)presented by PLS … Continue reading MWDWG: Special Event in May/June 2024!
Lusty Juventus on stage now!
Congratulations to the cast and crew of Lusty Juventus on their opening last night! Show details are here.
Coming soon: Lusty Juventus
PLS's first fully staged production since 2020 opens in three weeks! Read more here.
PLS AGM: 2pm, March 23, 2024 on Zoom
You are invited to PLS's Annual General Meeting, to take place at 2pm on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Please email director@plspls.ca for the Zoom details. Come hear updates about PLS's year and upcoming events, including the York 2025 plays!
Upcoming Performance: Lusty Juventus
A Tudor Moral Interlude by R. Wever Lusty Juventus is a short mid-16th century Moral Interlude of the “Prodigal Son” type, telling the story of a young man tempted by the joys of the flesh. It was written during the brief reign of Henry VIII’s son Edward VI for a small troupe of travelling players, … Continue reading Upcoming Performance: Lusty Juventus
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