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The Players of St Peter: Welcome
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Children of the Peace: the history of the Players
Some of the company in the 1996 Corpus Christi production at the end of the run, in a ceremony to mark the Players' fiftieth anniversary
In 1996 the Players of St Peter celebrated their Golden Jubilee – fifty years after the group was formed in the church of St Peter-upon-Cornhill in the City of London. Following the end of the Second World War a group of men and women decided to perform a religious play both as a thanksgiving for the return of peace and as a celebration of Christmas. Since 1951 the play has been taken from one of the medieval mystery cycles.
Over the years there have of course been many changes of actors, around an ongoing "core" of members who maintain the continuity and pass their knowledge on to those who form the nucleus for the following generation. The Players have had the benefit of the talents of many people from many walks of life, including professionals from the theatrical, musical and creative worlds – this expertise has helped to strengthen the group as a whole. Always the aim has been to give the best possible production; to make it as accessible as possible to a modern audience; and to keep faith with the original works as they were devised more than 500 years ago.
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