“Vague at first, this plaintive, long-drawn voice came nearer, grew louder, took on a cruel note; and to his horror he recognized the belling of the great black stag.”
{image = ‘The Forest Fire’ by Piero di Cosimo, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford}
A free and physical adaptation distilling the essence of the legend of Saint Julian ‘the hospitaller’ – incorporating elements of Gustave Flaubert’s ‘La légende de Saint-Julien l’Hospitalier’ and also scenes from the stained glass window in Rouen cathedral depicting Julian’s story which inspired Flaubert to include that tale in his ‘Trois Contes’.
