Gawain & the Green Knight by Felix Grainger & Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson, Park 90, 13 Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 | until 23 December 2025 ⭐⭐⭐ Review by William Russell

Photo credit: Kira Turnpenny

Gawain & the Green Knight

by Felix Grainger & Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson

Park 90, 13 Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 | until 23 December 2025.

⭐⭐⭐ Review by William Russell

“Frolics in Camelot”.

The people who run Camelot Corp are holding a Christmas party attended by the knights of the round t able. Their employees, and the powers that be, have decided that Gawain, their most boring employee, who works in Cyber security, will be the winner of the contest they are holding. It turns out that he is fated to go the legendary Green Chapel and fight with the Green Knight in order to win the employee he loves but it too shy to approach. There are times when one comes late to the party and I saw this on the day after the press night at which it seems those who later wrote about it were much amused. Sadly, I was just baffled by it all. There are some nice jokes of the Monty Python kind, lots of energetic leaping about – the four strong cast work very hard indeed – but it does need a clearer story line and as Gawain Felix Grainger is no Norman Wisdom. If you are going to play the hapless little man, you need to be the kind of little man one warms to and one did not warm to Mr Grainger's performance. Not that I ever warmed to Norman Wisdom. It is, however, the season of good will and he works very hard indeed – he is seldom off stage - to keep things rolling along. As the Green Knight Gabriel Fogerty-Graveson makes an impressive figure and as one half of Camelot Corp is suitably nasty and overbearing, while Cara Steele and Laura Pujes do all that is demanded of them stylishly and at top speed. But it really is too long. The interval did offer a chance one could not take, of course, which was to escape. At about 90 minutes long and played straight through this cod Arthurian romp could have worked far better,

Cast

Felix Grainger – Gawain

Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson – Green Knight

Cara Steele – Arthur, Dryad

Laura Pujos – Gwynne Hetty

Shaun Chambers – voice over of Merlin

Creatives

Directors – Kelly Ann Stewart & Adam Nichols

Composer & Sound Designer – Kezia Tomsett

Set and Projection Designer -Simon Nichols

Costume Designer – Cieranne Kennedy-Bell