(photo by Tony Webster)

Camelot is Crumbling

an Arthurian nightmare

"All storytellers are men who subvert history to their own moral purpose."

from "Camelot is Crumbling"

Praise for Camelot is Crumbling

"...one...very capable performer...as King Arthur's bastard son Mordred, he's all cold fury and coiled menace. I couldn't look away. Torrents of words poured out of his mouth, first conversationally, for a time also in a manic sort of spoken word/rap cadence. In this simplest of staging, the smallest gesture by him...was an almost violent action..."

- Matthew Everett, Twin Cities Daily Planet

About the Show

The murderous son of King Arthur recounts his history with the court to his dying father, while Arthur's greatest knight traverses a post-war landscape to find his queen. Both reflect on how their actions brought about the death of the dream in this brooding one-man tale of light and darkness.

Inspired by Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur -- a morbid and fantastic Middle English epic depicting the downfall of Camelot -- this is the story of the shadow that falls between vision and achievement; of the futility of political power; of a world of short-sighted ambition and crumbling ideals. A world, in other words, entirely unlike our own.

WARNING: Contains profanity and violence.

Performance Dates

Thursday, December 16th at 7:30pm (pay-what-you-can night)
Friday, December 17th at 7:30pm
Saturday, December 18th at 7:30pm
Sunday, December 19th at 2pm

(Also: Friday-Saturday at 9:30pm and Sunday at 4pm will be performances of Entwined by Amy Salloway (Rockstar Storyteller), which was a hit at the 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival! Watch this space for more details.)

Location

People's Center Theater
425 20th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Tickets

Ticket prices are $12.00, $10.00 with a Fringe button discount. For reservations, leave a message (stating your name, callback number, and number of tickets) at the Maximum Verbosity box office line at (952)926-6728, up to 48 hours in advance of the show; you will be called back within 24 hours to confirm.

Script Information

a tragic monologue for three voices in prose and verse
by phillip andrew bennett low
inspired by material by Sir Thomas Malory
estimated running time: 45 minutes

Cast: 3 male
Setting: a hospital room and a wasted land
Time: near-future United States, heavily anachronistic.

Produced? an excerpt was performed as part of Camelot is Crumbling: Two Arthurian Dreams. World premiere production available!
Family-friendly? No: contains profanity and violence.