The Harrowing of Hell 2016

The first modern performance of the Harrowing of Hell, arguably the the earliest British work of drama dating from around the ninth century. According to orthodox Christian belief, the fall of Adam and Eve from Paradise placed all humanity in the power of the devil until Christ redeemed those who accepted the faith by his death on the Cross. But what about those who had lived and died before Christ’s incarnation? This led to the legend, first found in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, that between his d