The Nosemaker’s Apprentice

A young girl asks her father, where do plastic surgeons come from? What follows is a fantastical romp through pre-civilized Europe, via the medieval art and science of nosemaking. Our hero is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, eventually to become one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting-edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire…Literally.

Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon

Written by Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert
Directed by Peter James Cook
with Rachel Shukert

Script Available through Samuel French

“Boisterous intelligence that can’t be contained….Infectious.”
-Time Out New York

“A flawless cast…the play itself has the feel of a big screen production; add in Jones and Shukert’s gasping-for-air hilarious script and Cook’s go-go directing…and you’ve got a much better alternative to both Brooks and the Python crew’s watered down inspirations forever making the Broadway rounds.”
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