HIDden Theatre

12/10/2026

Music is a big part of , & all 4 cycles have references to angels singing & liturgical music. But songs unique to the plays are incredibly rare- in fact, while Coventry's cycle has only 2 texts left, only 1 of which has enough to be performed, with it is the one example of a mystery plays song: the Coventry Carol.

10/10/2026

It's ! So we're sending love to all the amazing, brilliant SMs in the theatre industry, especially the people we have been so immensely privileged to work with here at HIDden. In the audience you barely see them, but they're the backbone of any production, the person who knows what's going on, & whatever needs doing, they already did it 20 minutes ago. If stage managers ran the world, most of our problems would be solved. So if you know a stage manager, today's the day to let them know just how incredible they are!

09/10/2026

One of the brilliant touches in "The Noah Project", our co-production in 2012, was director Charles Hunt's decision to have Mrs Noah skin an actual fish fillet onstage. It made a bit of a mess & we had to be careful about costumes, but she's such a down-to-earth character, it was a lovely touch!

07/10/2026

HIDden Theatre is looking to grow as a company & we're looking for some good people to join us!

HIDden Theatre is looking to grow as a company! We’re looking especially for trustees for our board of directors and company management, but we also have open space for creative involvement in othe…

05/10/2026

The plays about Mary are particularly interesting because they rely more on Apocryphal books & tradition than biblical text. They've always been something of a barometer for performing & interpreting the . The Pope's 1950 declaration coming only a year before the major revival of the plays in 1951 was purely coincidental; the UK was still too Protestant to bring back these very Catholic plays.

02/10/2026

After our debut at the London Museum, we were able to bring "Kings All Comely of Kind", our pair of medieval nativity plays, to an audience in York. Performed at the lovely ancient St Mary Bishophill Junior, here is one of our shepherds presenting gifts to Mary during a rehearsal.

28/09/2026

How long have the modern been performed on waggons? Not quite since the beginning... but maybe for longer than you'd expect! They were introduced due to the great success of 1951, but they stayed as a small side event for nearly forty years.

25/09/2026

In 2015, our previous year's production of 'The Baptism' for the was brought back to life for a conference on the Mystery Plays. The cast had a quick refresher rehearsal, shown here, before the performance.

21/09/2026

It's fascinating how modern can almost erase the memory of older traditions! How many other things- in theatre or otherwise- do we assume have always been a certain way, but history tells us something quite different?

18/09/2026

The 3 Shepherds arriving at the stable to meet Mary, Joseph, & baby Jesus in "Kings All Comely of Kind", part of two medieval nativity plays we performed at the British Museum in 2010 for HIDden's debut production.