YORK PLAYS 2025
JUNE 7, 2025
TORONTO

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THE MEDIEVAL YORK CORPUS CHRISTI PLAYS — FIFTY SHORT PLAY SCRIPTS, EACH BASED ON A DIFFERENT BIBLE STORY (OR ON A LATER MEDIEVAL “FANFIC” EMBELLISHMENT UPON BIBLE STORIES), EACH PRODUCED AND PERFORMED BY A DIFFERENT GUILD OR COMMUNITY GROUP, ALL ON ONE DAY. 

NEARLY EVERY YEAR, FROM 1376 TO 1569, THE PLAYMAKERS OF YORK PUT THEIR PLAYS ON MOVABLE STAGES — PAGEANT WAGONS — AND PULLED THEM FROM STATION TO STATION ACROSS THE WHOLE CITY, WITH EACH PLAY REPEATING AT EACH STATION, FROM SUNRISE WELL INTO THE NIGHT.

THEIR MASSIVE BIBLICAL DRAMA FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON THE LIVES OF JESUS AND HIS MOTHER MARY, BUT THE STORY EXTENDS ALL THE WAY BACK TO GOD’S CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE AND CONTINUE ALL THE WAY FORWARD TO THE LAST JUDGMENT.

ON SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2025 (RAIN DATE SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2025), STARTING AT 6:30AM — AND LIKELY CONTINUING PAST MIDNIGHT — EIGHTEEN PERFORMANCE GROUPS FROM ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, ORGANIZED BY PLS, WILL PARTICIPATE IN STAGING ALL OF THE YORK PLAYS IN MEDIEVAL STYLE, REPEATING EACH PLAY ACROSS FOUR PERFORMANCE STATIONS, OUTDOORS, AT:

BURWASH QUAD
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
89 THRU 93 CHARLES STREET WEST
TORONTO, ON, CANADA M5S 1K6

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND START MAKING TRAVEL PLANS:
PERFORMANCES SATURDAY JUNE 7, 2025, 6:30AM TO PAST MIDNIGHT, OUTDOORS*
(WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND DISCUSSION SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2025, 10AM TO 6PM, INDOORS)

*DEPENDING ON WEATHER AND SMOKE WE MAY SWITCH OUR SAT AND SUN SCHEDULES