Because these plays were normally performed on pageant wagons, it would be representative to make this performance in as small of a space as possible. Making the scenery seem confining is beneficial to the authenticity of the performance. This current production will not take place on a pageant wagon, but making similar design choices could help. Such as the dimensions of the pageant wagon dictating the playing space, four “support beams” reaching up supporting a covering structure, and having a limited amount of set pieces and props to show simplicity. According to Oxford Reference Online, a pageant wagon is “[a] wagon used as a mobile stage on which were performed mystery plays and related dramas in the Middle Ages. The term is sometimes also applied to a play performed on such a movable stage, usually a mystery play” (ORO “pageant wagon”). The goal, simply put, is to have all the same aspects of a pageant wagon, without it being mobile.
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Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson. "Pagean Wagon." Oxford Reference Online. 2nd Rev. Ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2003. Web.
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