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The Creation of the World to the Fifth Day
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God commences the work of his divine plan, producing order from chaos.
The heavens and the earth, day and night, sky, sea and dry land are set
in place. Finally, life is called forth into this perfect creation.
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"These plays tell the timeless story of God's engagement with
His world. They also bring that story out to where it really belongs:
to the hustle and bustle of the open streets."
The Lord Archbishop of York
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The York Guild of Building
The builders of medieval York included masons, glaziers, plumbers, plasterers
and tilers, with the largest group made up of those who worked in wood:
carpenters, sawyers, joiners and carvers. Of these groups, only four crafts
became organised into guilds - the Carpenters, Masons, Tile Thatchers,
and the Plasterers (who were sometimes women). Consensus has it that the
Creation was performed by the Plasterers' Guild.
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There were many techniques involved in plastering, all referred to in
medieval account books. Appropriately, the Plasterers' Play describes
a large construction project, intricately designed and beautifully finished.
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The York Guild of Building has been in existence in its current form
since 1954. The Guild was founded to encourage communication between the
different sections of the building industry and to promote and advance
the design, management, science and craft of building.
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