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Phil Cumbus on playing Judas, Angel Gabriel and Ribald. Two years ago I had a brilliant time working with Deborah Bruce (Director) on Helen and luckily she wanted me to be in this…

For our latest post we’re pleased to have a contribution from Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance in English at Cambridge University. Here she discusses the influence the Mystery Plays might have had on Shakespeare….

One of the fascinating things about the play is the father-son relationship, which is Jesus and God. I’m exploring the truth of that kind of relationship, rather than imagining it being ‘God’ and ‘Jesus’….

Overall, I’ve been helping support Deborah in a variety of ways, through such things as helping prepare the rehearsal schedule, liaising between different departments when needed and casting the supernumeraries for the show….

My job is to realise the designs that the designer has drawn, to make them real and put them on stage. Depending on the show we will either make the costumes from scratch or source them from elsewhere. What we make and what we source is affected by budget and the period. If we’re doing a traditional show it’s a big ‘make’ show. For The Globe Mysteries we’re doing a mixture of modern, period and really period….