The Chester Play Cycle has about 25 plays in it, depending on the translation. The Chester Cycle starts with the fall of Lucifer and ends with the last judgment. The University Of Toronto, Canada held a international conference in May 2010. Jessica Pribble helped design one of the pageant wagons that attended the conference. The goal of the conference was to create a festival as similar to what would have occurred in Medieval times as possible. Although the evidence that we have for festivals is limited the conference did the best they could. Pribble came to our class and lectured on the process her group went through to create their pageant wagon. They studied the symbolism from medieval times. Such as God and the sun and purple for royalty. They made the leaves on the trees to match a painting of the period. They had two trees, one to represent the Tree of Life and one to represent the Tree of Knowledge. Pribble’s group was very pleased with their final project and the festival was a great success.
The Chester Cycle. At From Stage to Page - Medieval and Renaissance Drama. NeCastro, Gerard, ed. http:www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama. 12/4/10.
Pageant. Photograph. Florilegium Urbanum. By Stephan Alsford. 1st Dec. 2010. Web. 6th Dec. 2010. <August 18, 2001.>.
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