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Thread #99813   Message #3010352
Posted By: SteveMansfield
19-Oct-10 - 03:04 AM
Thread Name: National Theatre/Channel 4 Mysteries
Subject: RE: National Theatre/Channel 4 Mysteries
Did anyone see all three Mystery shows on the same day - quite a marathon.

I saw the Nativity and Crucifixion in one day at the Edinburgh Festival in 1980(?), and caught as many as possible of the short excerpts performed out on the streets of Edinburgh with the band mounted on a fairground-themed trailer.

I also saw the three-play all-dayer at The Lyceum in, I think, 1985; and even though I happened to be sat down in the very first row at the time, I still didn't manage to see the exact transformational moment when the linen sheet was origamied into the baby Jesus ...

The whole trilogy is still one of the most moving and joyous pieces of theatre this old atheist has ever seen :)