Word: towneley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays this year show the improvement of experience. Not only is the movement of the scenes somewhat more unified, thanks to Mr. Burrell's efforts at adaptation in the wide range allowed him in the Towneley Cycle, but the roles themselves are in some cases taken by the same persons who acted them last year, and who bring to them a familiarity and a smoothness that adds greatly to the final sum of perfection. Mr. Little and Mr. Wardner are especially noticeable in this. And Mr. Snedeker as "Joseph" speaks his part with pleasing gestures and an excellent handling...
...presentation is the Chaundler play of the Towneley cycle, dealing with the Annunciation to Mary, The Adoration of the Infant by the Shepherds and Kings, and with the flight into Egypt. The translation by R. C. Burrell '24 and Donald Stralem '25 is in semi-poetical form...
Last year the Dramatic Club presented two plays from the Coventry cycle and a selection from one play of the Hegge Cycle. This year one play from the Towneley Cycle has been chosen. It treats the infancy of the Christ, beginning with the Annunciation to Mary and continuing the story to the Flight into Egypt, including the stories of Elizabeth, the three shepherds, the Magi, and Herod, who is of course the villain of the piece...
...Towneley cycle is by far the most developed of all those which survive. It was given yearly by the Chaundlers or Candle Makers' guild. From the point of view of construction, acting, and characterization, it is more fitted for modern presentation than any of the others. It loses, moreover, nothing but the stiffness of its predecessors; the spirit remains unchanged...