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“In Cathedral Provost may ponder if he should unbar the Great Door
With a wink and a nod to the Glory of God in the guise of an unredeemed Whore”

You don’t usually see Satan and his minions running up and down the aisle of an ancient cathedral, or hear praise for the comfort given by a whore.

But this was a mystery play in Southwark Cathedral, just across the road from London Bridge railway station.

The York and Chester mystery plays, revived during the 1951 Festival of Britain, are mediæval, but The Southwark Mysteries is only a decade old; its first performance was part of the millennium celebrations and its second was at the end of April this year.