A co-production with Alice Connolly for Festival of the Mind
In this performance, Eleanor May Blackburn and Alice Connolly explore the resonances between Nashe’s anxious age and our own, taking on Nashe’s angry, misogynistic, xenophobic, ableist, and classist persona, ‘Pierce Penniless’.
They go through each one of the deadly sins, as in Nashe's writing, and put a modern day twist on the themes.
The project is a collaboration with Prof Cathy Shrank (School of English, University of Sheffield) and grows out of work that she has been doing for the forthcoming edition of Nashe’s works, to be published by Oxford University Press. It premiered at Festival of the Mind in September of 2025
