Great Plays
Everyman
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Everyman is a medieval morality play in which a personified figure faces the certainty of death and must reckon with the life he has led. Its allegorical characters turn questions of responsibility, faith, and the value of worldly attachments into a direct dramatic encounter.
This radio presentation offers the play as a work of spoken drama, bringing its moral conflict to listeners through performance rather than exposition. The story’s central journey gives the piece a clear shape, while its symbolic figures and serious themes lend it the character of a theatrical parable.
The result is a reflective, solemn listening experience rooted in the tradition of religious drama. Its enduring subject—the choices a person makes when confronted with mortality—gives the play a human focus beyond its historical setting.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.