Staying in Chester, 2008 July

Chapter House now used as a restaurant

The Mysteries - The Musical

See also Judith Elbourne's gallery of the same performance

The cathedral as a backdrop

OK, the show has not actually begun but even so, while you may wave at your child/friend on stage at the school nativity play, we do not do it here!

Lucifer before his fall

These Busby Berkeley dancing girls are the sea that God has just created

Adam and Eve. The serpent is identified by a serpent hanging from his breast pocket. Lucifer after his fall (in red jacket)

In this cycle Mrs Noah has to be forcibly dragged from her "gossips" and into the Ark

The sea appears again

Octavian and Sibyll / Mary and Joseph enter Bethlehem

Goobett on the Green

The shepherds and Trowle, their "boy" who …

… wrestles with each one in turn and brings each to the ground

The first of this pair is by Roger. The second is by Judith Elbourne. (all Judith's set)

Herod greets the kings

Simeon failing horribly to support the baby’s head

Can’t remember

The Mysteries - The Musical - Part 2, the New Testament

Raising of Lazarus

Finale

Chester

Runcorn Museum of Boats, etc.

Leasowe Lighthouse and other stuff on the Wirral