156: Exploring: N-Town, Play 5 (Abraham and Isaac)

<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 the happy story of listening to the voices in your head, it's Abraham and Isaac. We looked at this play twice in this session.<br> For an alternative look at this story, we have rather a lot...<br> There's Chester, which is covered in three episodes, though only 2 and 3 cover the central story - <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/2776335-chester-plays-4-2-abraham">https://audioboom.com/posts/2776335-chester-plays-4-2-abraham</a><br> There's the (very similar to Chester) Brome play which we've done an exploring session on - soon to come as a full cast audio adaptation - <a href="https://audioboom.com/posts/7148855-exploring-the-brome-abraham-and-isaac">https://audioboom.com/posts/7148855-exploring-the-brome-abraham-and-isaac</a><br> The Beyond Shakespeare Irregulars this episode were Richard Fawcett 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-5-abraham-and-isaac">https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/sugano-n-town-plays-play-5-abraham-and-isaac</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