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Through the medieval period churches in Europe frequently performed mystery plays, retelling the stories of the Bible. They developed from the representation of Bible stories in churches with accompanying song. As these liturgical plays became more popular, more vernacular or everyday elements were introduced and non-clergy began to participate.
In the Middle Ages, the Mummers Play was a traditional English folk play, based loosely on the Saint George and the Dragon legend, usually performed during Christmas gatherings, which contained the origin of many of the archetypal elements of the pantomime, such as stage fights, coarse humour and fantastic creatures, [15] gender role reversal, and good defeating evil. [16]
The 1944 pantomime was Old Mother Red Riding Boots, written by the princesses and Tannar as a "mash up" of six traditional pantomime stories. [1] [6] Elizabeth wore a pink satin dress with lace sleeves to play 'Lady Christina Sherwood' and Margaret portrayed 'The Honourable Lucinda Fairfax' in a "blue taffeta dress with cream lace bloomers". [3]
The Story of Good Will is a 1959 Australian TV play. It was a pantomime produced for Christmas Eve and was Australia's first television pantomime. [2] The same night the ABC broadcast a nativity play The House by the Stable.
Aspects of Mary’s character in the movie are based on passages of the New Testament (the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke) and an early Christian text called the Proto Gospel of James.
Plays based on the Old Testament (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Plays based on the Bible" This category contains only the following page.
Pantomime in America, as in England, is usually performed at Christmas time. The entertainments, aimed at families, are based on nursery stories and fairy tales , and they incorporate songs (traditional, popular and new), slapstick comedy , often topical jokes , magic, some cross-dressing , local references, audience participation, and mild ...
The canonical Gospels offer only one story about Jesus as a boy—Luke's story about the boy Jesus in the Jerusalem Temple. According to Luke, his parents, Joseph and Mary, took the 12-year-old Jesus to Jerusalem on their annual pilgrimage to the Passover. Mary and Joseph started their journey home without Jesus, thinking he was somewhere in ...