Characters serving a similar function can also be found in the religious plays of the Middle Ages.
He said he wouldn't put up any money for one of these historical religious plays.
He mounted theater performances in the chancel and also religious plays.
Modern critics have focused a more tempered attention on the play's religious and spiritual themes.
During these events religious or comic plays were presented.
This is said to date from the days of the religious plays.
The origin of the religious play began in medieval churches.
Based on the lives of Christ and the apostles, the religious plays have been presented almost every year since 1971.
He said it was an adaption of an old Japanese religious play.
Would we see a comedy, or perhaps a religious play?