Holy Warriors - Fantasia on the Third Crusade

Saladin's great army have corrected a great wrong by taking Jerusalem back for Islam, after the barbaric slaughter of their people one hundred years ago

But for Muslim and Christian alike Jerusalem is a holy city

Across England and Outremer, nobles answer the call to arms from Richard the Lionheart to march on Jerusalem in the third crusade

And retake the Holy City from Saladin

Holy Warriors is A Fantasia on the Third Crusade and the History of Violent Struggle in the Holy Lands

REVIEWS

"Eldridge has always been the most muscular of writers and in this bold and ambitious play he swaps Basildon for the Holy Land in a piece whose epic swagger and salty humour are ideally suited to the Globe'" ~ Lyn Gardner, Guardian

"The play is an epic that sweeps all before it" ~ The Arts Desk

"It is a remarkable feat of narrative compression" ~ The Telegraph

"A fundamental truth in matters of power, politics and sins on all sides committed in the name of religion and righteousness" ~ WhatsOnStage

" ... David Eldgridge is getting to grips with the complex reasons our world ... looks the way it does today... there's no denying Eldridge's ambition" ~ Observer

" ... fantastically ambitious ... I was gripped... make no mistake that Holy Warriors is a brave, prodigious and rewarding experience" ~ Independent