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The Netherhole Martyr

Good Friends for a Lifetime

Illustrated by Sigrid Koerner + Hannah Mansell

Strange Region

Paperback

120pp

ISBN: 9781739784027

Theatre

Publication date: 1 January 2025

Rights: World

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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.

This play recounts 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 is written in shades of Donne and Swift, and fully illustrated by Sigrid Koerner and Hannah Mansell.