Plays and Performances

We’ve put on numerous performances that bring early drama, music and other performance traditions back to life. Enjoy reliving these with videos and photographs – and watch out for further events coming to Durham soon.

Highlights include:

• The first modern production of the oldest known drama from the British Isles: the Lindisfarne Harrowing of Hell.
• The Sacred and the Profane, a specially commissioned showcase of historic dance, music and processions
• Souls of the North, a suite of dances, music and performances that resurrect neglected traditions around death from the region

Watch, enjoy and learn more about the historic background to each event.