Creature

Creature

Creature

Creature

Overview

After being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe – new mother, mayor's daughter, and proprietress of a highly profitable beer business – is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes.

Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401. Should we trust the new Margery, with her fasting and her weeping and her chastity fixation, or burn her with the other heretics? Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up an audition for sainthood?

Playwright and Obie-winning actor Heidi Schreck conjures a collision of contemporary and medieval imaginations: a very funny, little bit scary new play about faith and its messengers.

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Details

  • Time Period: Medieval (6th-14th c.)
  • Cast Attributes: Expandable casting

Authors

Heidi Schreck

Heidi Schreck is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her critically-acclaimed play What the Constitution Means to Me played an extended, sold-out run on Broadway in 2019, and was nominated for two Tony Awards. It had subsequent runs at the Kennedy Center in Washington ...
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