Four Nights in Knaresborough
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Synopsis
Four men lay their client's arch enemy to waste. Their client is abroad, the nation is convulsed with outrage and all they can do is wait for the situation to calm. Knaresborough and the world will never be the same again. Four Nights in Knaresborough wrenches the lid off history with an explosive version of what happened after Beckett's murder in Canterbury Cathedral. Contains strong language and themes of an adult nature.
Our Review:
18 February 2003
Four Nights in Knaresborough is a first play by a teacher from Reading, which presumably finds its place in the West Yorkshire Playhouse's 'True North' season by virtue of its title.
Knaresborough, though you don't need to know it, is a rather charming market town which stands high above the River Nidd in North Yorkshire (not West Yorkshire as the writer, Paul Webb, appears to think). Its main claim to fame is Mother Shipton, a latterday Nostradamus; but there is also a largely disregarded castle ruin up on the crag above the river. As Mr Webb has discovered, this was owned in 1170 by Hugh de Morville and it was to here, following the slaughter in Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket, that Morville and his three co-assassins escaped and holed up for a year. So much is fact, and indeed it is the only fact in the play, the rest, since no record survives of their stay, is pure fiction.
Despite the attentions of armies of historians, not to mention ...
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USER: Whatsonstage.com (195.92.168.164) - 5 March 2003:
Not exactly a masterpiece, but isn't your reviewer taking it a bit too seriously? I certainly enjoyed the play, and Mr Flynn has a delightful bottom....
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Paul Webb (Author)
West Yorkshire Playhouse (Producer)
Matthew Gale (Producer)
Jenny King (Production Partnership Ltd) (Producer)
Gemma Bodinetz (Director)
Hayden Griffin (Design)
Paul Russell (Lighting)
Conor Linehan (Music)
Mic Pool (Sound)
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