When? 2 May 2025, 6-7.30pm
Where? Old Library (drinks) and Crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East (performance)
From the website: The year is 1320 in the stinking town of Netherhole. A young nun feels the hand of God clutch her guts, an ambitious Earl issues a dangerous decree, and a ghost rises from the river. Doctors, priests and rumours descend and Netherhole’s fortunes are changed forever.
The Netherhole Martyr is a play recounting a year in the fortunes of the people of Netherhole, a Yorkshire town in the grip of religious fervour after a young novitiate enacts a painful communion with the divine through her constipated bowels. This surreal and macabre play, written by ‘Good Friends for a Lifetime’ in shades of Donne and Swift, is fully illustrated by Sigrid Koerner and Hannah Mansell.
