RIDING LIGHTS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

THE PASSION

A communal experience of theatre and worship

Directed by Paul Burbridge
designed by Sean Cavanagh

Riding Lights Theatre Company is invited each year to perform a Passion Play as the centrepiece of the Good Friday service in the nave of York Minster. This occasion, at the heart of our preparation for Easter, has provided a moving combination of powerful theatre, meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

This year the Company is touring this unique presentation to other churches throughout Lent.

The major part of the evening is a beautifully staged ensemble performance of the events leading up to the death and burial of Christ. The Passion is divided into six episodes to create space for other expressions of worship and reflection arising directly out of the drama. These additional elements have been created in collaboration with The Reverend Jeremy Fletcher, Canon Precentor of York Minster, and will be read by readers and musicians from each community hosting the performance.

The whole presentation becomes a powerful act of remembrance which is both participatory and reflective - a doorway into a deeper experience of the nature of Christ’s passion.

Other show information correct as of Tue 2 December, 2003