Christmas hardly seems like the time of year dedicated to the birth of our savior, unless your savior is capitalism. Today's culture focuses on santa, gifts, and snowball fights at christmas time. Now the nativity to most people is something where figurines get stolen from, not a reminder of the origins of the christmas cheer they are experiencing. I think that while the York cycle was meant to be performed as a set, putting on the set of christmas-related plays in their traditional setting on a simplistic pageant wagon could be very powerful. People might stop and watch something so simple amongst all of the glitter and glitz of the commercialized holiday season. Perhaps the plays could serve their original purpose and awaken some ideas with morality plays.
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