151: Exploring: N-Town, Play 4 (Noah)

<div>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.<br> The journey continues with Noah and every child's favourite genocide story. For some light relief, there's the return of Cain!<br> For an alternative look at the Noah story, we have also looked at the Chester version - it's split over three episodes and can be found here... <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/2472375-chester-plays-3-1-noah">https://audioboom.com/posts/2472375-chester-plays-3-1-noah</a><br> The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode were Liz Cole, Richard Fawcett, Mark Scanlon, and Alan Scott – with host, Robert Crighton.<br> There are various online and purchasable versions available - here's a good one, but is in the original middle English and might put you off - others should be hunted for to taste.<br> A play text: <a href="https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/sugano-n-town-plays-play-4-noah">https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/sugano-n-town-plays-play-4-noah</a> </div> <div>The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to <a href="https://patreon.com/beyondshakespeare">www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare</a> - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi <a href="https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare">https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare</a> - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on Twitter @BeyondShakes or go to our website: <a href="https://beyondshakespeare.org/">https://beyondshakespeare.org</a> </div>