Featured Plays

The Last Act in the Story: Mysteries for the Modern Age by Sean Lang

This is a dynamic and engaging sequence of well-known Mystery Plays, re-written for a modern audience.

There are 10 titles: Prologue, Lucifer, The Fall, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, The Annunciation, Herod, The Woman Taken in Adultery, The Temptation and The Crucifixion.

The scenes can be presented singly, in selection or as a whole play, with minimal staging required. The plays are written in a lively mixture of verse and prose, with the verse echoing the form of the original medieval mysteries, but the language is up-to-date throughout, reflecting the ideas and attitudes of the twenty-first century. Individual scenes vary in length but the whole piece lasts about one hour and 45 minutes. They can be presented at any time of the year but would be particularly suitable for Christmas and Easter.

St George’s Players, Beckenham, did a full performance of these plays at Easter 2025, and the production is reviewed in the Summer 2025 issue of Radius Performing.

You can see the preview here. A short video trailer for the play is here.

The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful vehicles for the edification of a country’s people, and a barometer that marks the country’s greatness or declines. A sensitive theatre . . . can alter a people’s sensibility in just a few years, while a decadent theatre where hooves have taken the place of wings can cheapen and lull to sleep an entire nation. 

Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936