Mother Naked

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the citys most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the story hes come to tell is the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the gruesome walking ghost some say slaughtered the nearby village of Segerston forty years earlier. But is this monster only a myth, born from the dim minds of toiling peasants? Or does the Wraith and do the murders have roots in real events suffered by those fated to a lifetime of labour? As Mother Naked weaves the strands of the mystery of class, religion, art, and ale it starts to seem as though the chilling truth might be closer to his privileged audience than they could ever imagine. Taking its inspiration from a single payment entered into Durhams Cathedral rolls, Modyr Nakett was lowest-paid performer in over 200 years of records. Set against the traumatic shadow of the Black Death and the Peasants Revolt, Mother Naked speaks back from the margins in a fury of imaginative recuperation.