The Lady of the Lake review " swords, sorcery and tin-eared couplets
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThis verse drama claiming King Arthur as a son of Cumbria is turgid, oblique and alarmingly misogynistic If Camelot was a fiction, there's a greater likelihood that the real King Arthur was based in Carlisle. Tennyson fancied that Excalibur was collected from the northern lake of Bassenthwaite, while some suggest that the legendary king slumbers beneath Blencathra.Benjamin Askew's play is …