Ursula

Archive Listings for Ursula

T854667825 (CSSD00) The 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
T0582242253 (WREST98) Company 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	The Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L01255395334
28 Apr 98 to 30 Apr 98	Northern Stage (previously known as Newcastle Haymarket Playhouse), Newcastle upon Tyne :: V568 listing details L0514696986
22 Apr 98 to 25 Apr 98	Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham :: V143 listing details L01617645924

Details

Play :: 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.

Author

Howard Barker