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Greg Cullen's play depicts a once enlightened city close to ruin as a charismatic, religious leader holds sway over a terrified population. Set in Renaissance Florence, Botticelli's Bonfire raises strikingly modern questions as it tells the story of a groundbreaking artist who falls from favour when the forces of intolerance take a hold and attempt to ban new ideas and means of artistic expression. Books, paintings and sculptures are burnt in the streets as the followers of Savonarola, a militant Dominican Friar, seek - literally - to reduce the artistic achievements of Botticelli and his contemporaries to ashes. In a script of biting humour, underpinned by original music and fuelled by images of the Renaissance known the world over, Botticelli's Bonfire will act as a timely reminder to what can happen if fundamentalist beliefs are imposed on the individual.

Creatives/Company

Author: Greg Cullen
Company: National Youth Theatre of Wales