"An intense drama full of dark humour…Malcolm Hamilton was completely inspired as Brito – edgy and dangerous one moment, comical the next. The sight of him beating a defenceless loaf of bread to death with an axe was worth the ticket price alone…Four Nights in Knaresborough is likely to become a minor classic." EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

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The greatest crime since the crucifixion and… probably the worst career move in history!

Locked together ‘Big Brother’ style for 365 days four knights find themselves in solitary confinement. What went on between them? We can only begin to imagine.

It’s the winter of 1170, and four knights approach Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. What should have been a simple royal arrest turns into a brutal killing - and one of the greatest historical crimes is committed. They now become the most wanted men in Christendom. Forced into a deadly waiting game, the four criminals take refuge inside Knaresborough castle with only the enigmatic Catherine to stand between them and an outraged world desperate to see them dead. As the boredom, the fear and the sexual tension take their toll, they gradually come to realise the full consequences of their crime.

Four Nights in Knaresborough by Paul Webb, while cultured, funny and frantic is also moving and brutal. Blending historical fact with modern language, this darkly comic drama lifts the lid on one of the most mysterious events in British history and incorporates the best ingredients of both a ‘Blackadder’ episode and a Tarantino movie - sexual energy, sleep deprivation, personal trauma, constipation and a nasty toothache!!!

The sell out Scottish Premiere run of Four Nights in Knaresborough by Paul Webb opened at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh on 30th September until 2 October 2004. Back >>

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