Beyond Shakespeare

156: Exploring: N-Town, Play 5 (Abraham and Isaac)

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Exploring: The N-Town Play, a slow burn look at a medieval Mystery (sort of) cycle. The N-Town Play comes to us as a single manuscript, but it's a compilation of various different sources - including elements from what looks like a cycle and various other large scale productions focusing on episodes from the Bible. The journey continues with the happy story of listening to the voices in your head, it's Abraham and Isaac. We looked at this play twice in this session. For an alternative look at this story, we have rather a lot... There's Chester, which is covered in three episodes, though only 2 and 3 cover the central story - https://audioboom.com/posts/2776335-chester-plays-4-2-abraham There's the (very similar to Chester) Brome play which we've done an exploring session on - soon to come as a full cast audio adaptation - https://audioboom.com/posts/7148855-exploring-the-brome-abraham-and-isaac The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode were Richard Fawcett and Alan Scott – with host, Robert Crighton. The