The Last Flight of Merlin was written in 2004 and performed at the Harrow Arts Festival of 2006 and the HRUA performing arts festival, RecFest, in the same year. It featured a professional cast, and was directed by Pinner based actor David Ackland.
The play delves into the two realms of Celtic myth and contemporary surveillance society, throwing the two, incompatible seeming worlds into a jarring conflict. Arthur and his court find themselves in the 21st century inhabiting a twilight zone of memory and frustrated ambition. The court of Camelot is now a prison, with 24 hour surveillance by an army of earth bound security guards. Arthur is fed up, and seeks to break free of the modern world's stifling hold on his knights and his power. A audacious plan is hatched to mount a daring rescue - Merlin, Arthur's guardian and servant of old, has been locked in the dungeons of Castle Corbennic for an age, and Arthur wants him back at court. But will his knights, led by the irrepressible Sir Gawain, be able to wrest the old magician free, held as he is in the lands of Queen Vivian, a fearless sorceress and arch enemy of Arthur? And can they avoid capture by the remorseless security patrols that scan Camelot's perimeter?
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