King Arthur and the Knights of the Occasional Table 1998 - 1999
King Arthur returns in chain mail, "We are on the eve of the Millennium and the time is right for me to come back"
“Given that the Arthurian legends are precisely that, with history at best ambivalent to the whole Camelot king thing, doubting the verity of any interpretation would seem churlish. One does wonder, though, whether Guinevere would have made quite such a fuss about the knights putting hot things down on the round table, that Arthur was really so upset at having to sit at the leg.”
The Herald
SYNOPSIS:
How long did the Lady of the Lake have to hold her breath under water before Arthur came upon the scene? Was Merlin really a magician, or just an early spin doctor? And what did those women in pointy hats really do when the men were off fighting? Guinevere and Merlin join King Arthur. The marriage, the affair, the visit to the Glastonbury festival with the mud and the queues for the toilets. Which is where the trouble started. After queuing for two days, Arthur returned to the tent and something wasn't right. "There was my sleeping bag with a hot water bottle in it. Well, it certainly wasn't mine." Also featuring Guinevere’s father’s flat-pack table.
At the time of writing King Arthur, Sue’s son Oliver was 4 years old and obsessed with Knights. He listened to a cassette of “Tales of King Arthur” by Roger Llancelyn Green over and over again, so the stories were embedded in Sue’s psyche. This was the first time LipService worked with director Mark Chatterton, famous for his physical comedy and this show was packed with visual gags. Lancelot had a lance that got longer and longer....and longer, Merlin’s very life like owl had a marvellous rotating head, and then there were the fabulous horses.
“Do watch the Horse dance” Sue Ryding
