‘Prompting in Full View of the Audience: The Groningen Experiment’
METh 23 (2001) 122–171.

This paper examines issues raised by a production of the Towneley Second Shepherds' Play at the SITM Colloquium, Groningen, Netherlands in 2001. The purpose of the production was to examine the statement made by Richard Carew in his Survey of Cornwall (1602) concerning the 'Ordinary' whose function was to prompt in full view of the audience. Scenes from the play were played with different emphases in relation to the prompter's role. International scholars from the audience contribute their responses to the analysis.

‘The Law That Never Was: A Review of Theatrical Censorship in Britain’
METh 23 (2001) 34–96.

Evidence from statutes, official orders and Parliamentary Committees proving there was no law per se, only the Lord Chamberlain’s ban (for religious and political purposes), on dramatic representations of God. Extracts from official letters and counsel’s opinion explain how and why the 1951 York Mystery Cycle production was not banned.