Patrick Carnegy

Camelot on Avon

Morte d’Arthur<br /> Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in rep until 28 August

issue 26 June 2010

Morte d’Arthur
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in rep until 28 August

The quest for King Arthur is not to be undertaken lightly. The RSC’s éminence grise, John Barton, has devoted much of his life to it — or at least what has remained to him after Tantalus, his nine-hour dramatisation of the literature piled up around the walls of Troy.

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