700 years ago, Dame Alice Kyteler was the first woman in Ireland to be tried for Heresy.  She fled Kilkenny, and her servant Petronella was tried and convicted in her stead, then publicly burned alive on the main street of Kilkenny. 

Publicly. Burned. Alive.

This is not their story. But it might be.

In 2026 acclaimed theatre company Asylum Productions (Big Chapel X, The Local) will return to Kilkenny Art festival for an epic reimagining of the tale of the Kilkenny Witch Trials.

This year, audiences can enjoy a sneak preview of some of the chapters of The Alice Project, including a brief, intimate, one-to-one encounter with Alice in a secret city centre location, and an audience with her arch nemesis - the dreaded DeLedrede.