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In this play, I use the renaissance form to voice new ideas: not as a pastiche, but in the spirit of renewal. It is not a swords and sorcery drama (although there are some swordfights) but instead uses the Arthurian legends to articulate our problems in a form that will resonate. It is intended to be part of the national conversation: to ask questions that can’t be asked in the media age of politics and ‘spin’: to get to the heart of matters in a human way, through the interactions of its characters. Sometimes we must look the past to make sense of the present. Richard Demarco recently gave me a quote, “modernism without myth is meaningless”. I believe that now, after a long period of deconstruction, it is time for reconstruction – to prove that we can strive to compete with the best of the works of the past.
Lucy Nordberg. 21st July 2010
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