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Playwright
Frances Kay
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Author Notes
Based on the fourteenth-century account of a pilgrimage from Ireland to Jerusalem written by the Clonmel friar Simon FitzSimon (Symon Simeonis).
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Setting
14th century Europe
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Notes
With my Bare Hands was staged as part of the collaborative project ‘Bringing History to the People’ initiated between the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, University College Dublin, School of History, University College Cork and the Irish Franciscans. It was funded by the Heritage Council and the Arts Council.
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Synopsis
With my Bare Hands tells the true and tragic story of two fourteenth-century Irish Franciscan friars, Simon Simeonis and Hugo the Illuminator, on a journey from Clonmel to Jerusalem through turbulent lands in Europe and the Middle East. Their pilgrimage is intended to emulate the example of the unconventional and charismatic St. Francis, but they cannot know what lies in wait for them. Shackled with their human fallibilities, they struggle to integrate what they experience in England, France Greece and Egypt with their contemporary values and sense of self, deeply coloured by the cultural and religious baggage they bring with them from fourteenth-century Ireland.
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Play Type
Plays General
Number Of Acts
Full-Length
Cast size
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Male
1
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Total
1