The Narrow Road - York Minster

• Posted by admin on April 7th, 2011 filed in Previous Events

As part of a national tour the award-winning Riding Lights Theatre Company will be performing The Narrow Road by Paul Birch at York Minster on Monday 18th April at 7.30pm.

Amid the heat and beauty of ancient Palestine, a man stands on a dusty road. An extraordinary journey will take place; one which will re-trace the footsteps of Jesus into a world of miracles and madness, violence and liberation. As The Narrow Road is walked, this turbulent world is turned upside down; its inhabitants confronted by an unexpected and surprising vision.

Meeting the characters and re-living the events of the gospels, this passion story takes its audience back along that original road, through the place of the cross and into the challenge of a life beyond. Compellingly performed, The Narrow Road asks each of us to review the understanding and practice of our own faith in relation to that journey today.

Here’s what audiences had to say after seeing The Narrow Road in 2010:
• “This was the most inspiring two hours that I’ve spent in a long time”
• “Beautiful and disturbing – I was floored”
• “A packed hall, an amazing passion play and cast and a wonderful preparation for Easter Day”
• “This was a truly extra-ordinary and life-changing event – it will have a deep and lasting affect on me”

Riding Lights is one of the UK’s most successful independent theatre companies and is internationally renowned for more than thirty years of touring productions.  Following the huge success of their previous plays The Passion, Calvary and Redemption Song, this new play for 2010, The Narrow Road, has been commissioned jointly by the Dean and Chapter of York and Lightline Pilgrimages.

At intervals, the performance creates space for other expressions of worship, music and reflection arising directly out of the drama. The whole presentation becomes a powerful act of remembrance which is both participatory and reflective.

For full details of the performance please visit www.ridinglights.org/thenarrowroad.