The Irish Giant
T02019055051
Set in the 1780s against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, when science and faith found themselves on a collision course.
The Irish Giant is based on the story of Charles Byrne, Georgian London's biggest star, an eight-foot tall Irishman whose body is coveted by visionary anatomist John Hunter, a man obsessed with life, death and abnormal bodies. Plunging its bloody hands into history,
The Irish Giant explores the ethics of who owns our bodies, who should - and what life, if any, awaits us after death? The story of Charles Byrne remains controversial today - 250 years on, campaigners have recently demanded that his body be retrieved from London's Hunterian Museum and given the burial at sea that Byrne sought.
Archive :: production:T02019055051, play:S0757807228, venue:V226
Production details
Running time: approx. 90mins without interval. The Vault
Production Changes
Previous details associated with this item and date of change.
- 6 Mar 12
- C:Cartoon de Salvo
- 6 Mar 12
- C:Cartoon de Salvo
