id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3351 York Mystery Plays - Wikipedia .html text/html 3984 357 69 There is no record of the first performance of the mystery plays, but they were recorded as celebrating the festival of Corpus Christi in York in 1376, by which time the use of pageant wagons had already been established. With Ray Stevenson in the role of Christ and Rory Mulvihill (Jesus in 1996) as Satan, the production was the most expensive and wide-reaching project in the history of the plays' modern revival.[11] The first half began in heaven with the story of the fall of Lucifer, followed by the creation of the world, the fall of Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark (with impressive and memorable representations of the animals and the flood) and the story of Abraham and Isaac. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3351.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3351.txt