ISENHEIM

Mountshannon Arts Festival presents a rehearsed playreading of a new play by Paul Brennan. Images from the Isenheim Altarpiece will feature throughout.

The altarpiece was painted in the early 16 th century by Mattias Grünewald who with the help of the abbot of the hospital-monastery of Isenheim in Alsace, created one of the great masterpieces of that age.

But their real purposes were secretive, because they wished to smuggle certain messages – heretical messages – in to the work. How they managed to avoid detection brings a surprising comical twist to their otherwise lofty ambition to create a healing work of art.