23:00, Wed 22nd – Sat 25th February 2012 at ADC Theatre
Lent Week 5

As the tide comes in, Antonius Block is playing chess with Death.

The Knight and his Squire Jons have returned from the Crusades to find their homeland ravished by plague, poverty and persecution. As they continue homewards, they meet the naive and talented performers, Jof and Mia, a deaf girl, and a young witch, shaved and tied up, ready for burning.

As the little company venture into the forest for the final leg of their journey, they stop to sleep, forgetting Death himself lingers in the shadows, breathing and waiting...