The Fall of Lucifer (Chester) - Full Audio Recording

In the dim and distant past of 2013 we started a real in depth look at the Chester Plays - launching the Exploring the Chester Plays series as well as recording fuller audio productions for future release.  We've nearly caught up with ourselves.  The first five Explorings, covering plays 1 to 10, have now been archived and the first audio production has been edited.  It's not perfect, but considering how rushed the sessions were, it's turned out quite well.  Beyond a minor edit to bypass the issue of the Angels singing (sorry Mat, you ended up on the cutting room floor - we so can't do music of the period yet) it's a full recording of the text we used for Exploring in 2013 - though with more considered performances and sound to help tell the story.  It is hopefully a good introduction to the play for the student who's never seen or heard the play in full before - i.e. almost everyone on the planet.
We've recorded play two which will follow in a similar fashion, and some bits from plays 3,4 & 5 - which may be completed at a later date.
And that'll be it for a while - we're moving on from Chester for the present (though we hope to finish the Exploring sessions at some point).  We're based in East Anglia, so the N-Town play is a much more important 'cycle' to be looking at at in the future.

So, please enjoy our version of Play One of the Chester Plays - The Tanners Play covering the Fall of Lucifer.


God: Robert Crighton
Lucifer: Trevor Laver
Lightbourne: Richard Fawcett
Angels and Archangels: Helen Arbon, Neil Arbon, Adam Webster, Kevin Roychowdhury, AM Barrett, Annie Eddington.
Recorded at the Quay Theatre, Sudbury
Produced and edited by Robert Crighton

Music and Sound Effects all come from the lovely people of freesfx - http://www.freesfx.co.uk