Performance

Venue	Riverside Studios
	Other spaces: Studios 1, 2 and 3, Cinema
Town	Outer London
County	Greater London
From	2nd June 1998
To	7th June 1998
What is currently on at Riverside Studios (V331)

Ursula

T0582242253
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

Archive :: production:T0582242253, play:S5428, venue:V331

Reviews

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Company

Company	Wrestling School
Director	Howard Barker
Design	Robert Innes Hopkins
Lighting	Ace McCarron
Sound	John Leonard
Performer	Victoria Wicks

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