EPP. Millennium Production (winner of the SADATA 2001 Award for Stagecraft)
Small Wonder
A Mystery Play by Malcolm Lomax
This scene of Noah's Ark in the rising waters of the flood, won a SADATA "Champagne Award", presented for outstanding moments of theatre.
Cycles of plays telling bible stories are some of the earliest recorded forms of drama in the English theatre. These miracle, or Mystery Plays enjoyed greatest popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries.
In the 1950's Britain 'rediscovered' the Mystery Play and they once again became popular.
Our production was set in disused steelworks and was told by three groups of workers - labourers, working women and white collar workers. These workers represent men and women throughout the ages throughout the world. Men and women who work hard and without whom the ideas of the genius, the inventor, the researcher, the powerful would stay at just that - ideas. They are the ordinary people - the common man.
