York Pageant Wagons - 2018 Sept 16
Of course God has a Yorkshire accent and wears a cloth cap. The children dancing round him make a rather effective burning bush
Judgement Day brought forth by Ravens Morris on behalf of The Company of Merchant Adventurers
York Pageant Wagons - 2014 July 20
The Creation of the World to the Fifth Day - presented by the York Guild of Building
The Guild of Building have been using the same carts since 1998. Note the real breeze block walling on the smaller cart.
The Fall of Man - the Guild of Freemen with Canon Lee School
The Shepherds - the Guild of Scriveners
The Slaughter of the Innocents - Heslington Church
I say that they did it wrong! This image, ripped off from
here shows John pouring a bit of water over Jesus' head. But why was John making people go down to Jordan? Because he was baptising by
total immersion. When I played John, we did it that way.
The Woman taken in Adultery and The Raising of Lazarus - York St John University
Interval
The trumpet is nearly two yards long
I could not see the "motivation" of this set
The Crucifixion and The Death of Christ - The York Butchers Gild [sic] with the Church of St Chad on the Knavesmire, Harrogate
The Harrowing of Hell - the Church of St Luke the Evangelist
An whole-parish production - if you wanted a part, you got one
Prompter is in full view so must be in costume. For more than one of the mob-handed plays the director allowed spectacles - probably for basic safety reasons with people having to climb steps, etc.
The Resurrection - presented by The Company of Merchant Taylors
The Carpenters Pageant of
The Resurrection -
original text -
modernised text.
Spin doctoring is nothing new. In this play Pilate and the two high priests are initially very disturbed by the tomb having been found empty. But then Pilate works out a suitable story and calm is restored.
Pilate: Harken what that ye shall say
To ilka man both night and day:
That ten thousand men in good array
Came you until,
With force of arms bore him away
Against your will.
Thus shall ye say in ilka land,
And thereto on that same covenant
A thousand pound have in your hand
To your reward —
And friendship, sirs, ye understand,
Shall not be spared.
Thus shall the sooth be bought and sold,
And treason shall for truth be told.
The Last Judgement - The Company of Merchant Adventurers, with Pocklington School
I am not sure what the theological justification is for including a steampunk morris side! Such sides seem to be always mixed sex. Note the officers of the company in their robes in the background
York Pageant Wagons - 2010 July 18
Most of these pictures were taken on College Green with St William's College in the background. A few are in Dean's Park and walking back from there to College Green.
The Creation of the World to the Fifth Day - presented by the York Guild of Building
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel - The Gild of Freemen
Abraham and Isaac - York St. John's University
The Transfiguration
The Agony in the Garden
Dean's Park audience
The Cruxifixion - The Guild of Butchers and St Chad's Church
Christ on the cross played by Neil Tattersall
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