Theatre: Ritual in Blood
Nottingham Playhouse Rating: *****Little Hugh of Lincoln was a 13th-century cause célèbre. The young boy's disappearance inflamed the anti-Semitism of the Christian community, who believed that he had been taken as a blood sacrifice by the Jews whose funds they were borrowing to build their cathedral. It was the chance discovery of a plaque to the little martyr in Lincoln that prompted Steven Be…