The Origins of Medieval Theatre: A Conversation with Kyle Thomas
Episode 167
A conversation with Kyle Thomas where we discussed the long transition period between Roman theatre and medieval theatre. As you may remember from my episodes on the medieval theatre this is a very opaque period where details are few and far between. In my episodes in season three of the podcast I mostly followed the view that medieval theatre grew out of parts of the church liturgy that became dramatized as very simple, short plays. As you will hear in our conversation Kyle puts a more nuanced perspective on that and also speaks to the role of the education system of the time in that process.
Links to Kyle’s projects:
Ensemble Member: Stage Left Theatre
Reviewer for ChicagoOnStage.com
Chief Editor of ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Featured Expert on Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America (Discovery Channel)
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Kyle A Thomas
Kyle A. Thomas is a theatre historian, a professional actor and director, as well as a theatre critic. He recently left his position at Missouri State University after re-invigorating the B.A. Theatre Program and now serves as Adjunct Professor of Theatre at North Park University in Chicago, where he’s also a resident Ensemble member of Stage Left Theatre. A specialist in early medieval theatre and drama, Kyle’s publications reveal how performance shaped social and cultural practices in premodern Europe. His direction of medieval plays includes the Play of Adam at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters (N.Y.C.) in 2016. He is also the Chief Editor of the journal, ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama. You can watch him on screen as part of the Discovery Channel’s Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America or as The Theatre History Professor on YouTube.