The Glasshouse

Eaten by characters, dotted around the stage as saliva-prompting props, or nibbled by audiences – a medieval religious drama is glutted with food. But Christianity’s vision of God as spiritual nutrition could provoke horror and fear as well as hunger.

New Generation Thinker Daisy Black examines some of the gristly, crunchy medieval episodes of culinary performance to investigate the relationship between faith and food. In one play, sacramental bread is attacked in a kitchen, drawing disturbing parallels between the eucharist and cannibalism.

Daisy Black lectures in English at the University of Wolverhampton and performs as a storyteller and freelance theatre director.

Come and hear this recording of an episode of BBC Radio 3’s The Essay with a chance to ask questions about the topic.

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select 10 academics each year who can turn their research into radio.

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• Phase one tickets will be available from 12noon on Friday 15 February, with phase two tickets available from 12noon on Friday 1 March.
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