The conflict between sexual and spiritual love. In myth, Ursula so wanted to keep her virginity that she travelled down the Rhine accompanied by 10,000 virgins to break off her betrothal. The play took its inception form the image The Massacre of the Virgin Martyrs in the sixteenth century altar piece by Cranach the Elder in Dresden. Cranach revolutionised the subject by shifting the attention of the viewer from the victims to the perpetrator, The Prince. First performed in 1998 by The Wrestling School at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Barker's play reconstructs the Ursula legend by moving the focus to a very different place: the tragic theatre.T854667825The play contains scenes that have adult language and nudity.Company The Central School of Speech of Drama. Director Stephen Rawsthorne. Lighting David Howe. | |
| 8 Nov 00 to 11 Nov 00 | Embassy Theatre, Inner London :: V284 listing details L327682288 |
T0582242253Company Wrestling School. Director Howard Barker. Design Robert Innes Hopkins. Lighting Ace McCarron. Sound John Leonard. Performer Victoria Wicks. | |
| 2 Jun 98 to 7 Jun 98 | Riverside Studios, Outer London :: V331 listing details L879044817 |
| 29 May 98 to 30 May 98 | Oxford Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L01255395334 |
| 28 Apr 98 to 30 Apr 98 | Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V568 listing details L0514696986 |
| 22 Apr 98 to 25 Apr 98 | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham :: V143 listing details L01617645924 |
