Merlin and the Woods of Time
From: Thursday, 14th July 2011
To: Friday, 19 August 2011
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Synopsis
The play is a light-hearted and fast-paced comedy, set backstage at a jousting tournament. It is written mostly in verse and will be a surprise and a revelation to audiences. It has a Shakespearean style in its subject matter and language.
Our Review:
18 July 2011
We all know points make prizes… the point being that poets make excellent playwrights. Glyn Maxwell is well served by Chester Performs, and for a PG (but not PC) show, ample sophistication is mixed with entertaining zaniness: complementary songs and music and colourful costume. The delight is in the detail, played out in a simply appealing rustic setting.
It’s the good old standard: boy meets girl, then loses her, but the world of Camelot is a lottery: mere peasant spurned by proud beauty resorts to desperate measures, aka the end of the world as we know it. So he needs Merlin’s help with all kinds of weird and wonderfully witty goings on.
David Hartley’s Watercup is an ingenious, comic hero, and although Rosie Hones as Elaine falls for him a bit too suddenly, she’s an intriguing heroine: more sharp tongued yet plain daft than feisty. Lancelot and Guinevere (Paul-Ryan Carberry and Sophie Roberts) make a right Read more of the review
Creative
Glyn Maxwell (Author)
Chester Performs (Producer)
Alex Clifton (Director)
takis (Design)
David Shrubsole (Music)
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