Ritual in Blood

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T791944119 (PLAYNOTT01)

Company Playhouse Productions. Director Timothy Walker. Lighting Zerlina Hughes. Design Simon Holdsworth. Performer Joanna Burnett. Performer Alex Caan. Performer David Fleeshman. Performer Thomas Jamerson. Performer Simon McLinden. Performer Jules Melvin. Performer Simon Merrells. Performer Jason Morell. Performer Robin Pearce. Performer Ian Peck. Performer Alan Perrin. Performer Ruth Posner. Performer Nitzan Sharron. Performer Justin Shevlin.

25 May 01 to 16 Jun 01

Playhouse, Nottingham :: V457
listing details L970054690

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Play :: In Lincoln in 1255, a conspiracy between the Church, the townspeople and King Henry III levelled the charge of ritual child murder against the Jewish community. Eighteen people were executed as a result. This dark episode of local history has inspired British theatre legend Steven Berkoff to create a compelling play, Ritual in Blood is an imaginative account of the events which led to the first recorded pogroms against the Jews in Europe, culminating in the expulsion of all Jews from England in 1290.

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