VOLUNTEERS from last year’s York Mystery Plays have gathered in the Museum Gardens for a reunion picnic.

Dozens of volunteer actors, dancers and backstage crew enjoyed glorious sunshine as they marked the one year anniversary of the production’s opening weekend.

Alex Hughes, chairman of the Mystery Plays Supporters Trust, said it was a pleasure to see familiar faces assembled again.

Fiona Peck, who played Mary Magdalene and a dancing angel in the outdoor productions, said: “It’s lovely, but slightly surreal to see everybody out of their 1940s costumes.”

The picnic was also an opportunity for the volunteers to hear about plans for the Waggon plays, which will see 12 plays performed on 12 waggons moving around the city in the summer of 2014.

Alex said: “Originally they would have been performed by the 12 guilds, but we are going to have schools, community groups and churches all involved.”