Dr Robert Wright and colleagues from Ars Ludendi presented a short course in 2008 on 'City and Spectacle: The York Mystery Plays as a cultural treasure'. The course was attended by 27 people.
The sessions explored various aspects of the Mystery Play tradition in York, as a social and cultural artefact and as literary dramatic text. This included study of the physical setting of the city streets and the organising capacity of the civic authorities and trade guilds, as well as study of selected texts through dramatised readings and musical performance. A walk along the route of the plays took place on the afternoon of Sunday 27th April, starting from the Nunnery Lane car park at 2.00pm.