Synopsis

The setting is England in the Middle Ages. Two storytellers set the scene by telling the audience of the fiery dragon waiting to eat monks, knights, sheep and princesses!

The wicked chancellor, who wants to marry the princess himself, persuades the queen to agree that whoever kills the dragon will have her daughter's hand in marriage. The Princess Eleanor is very upset as she does not want to marry anyone. George is a simple country lad who finds himself fighting the dragon to rescue princess Eleanor. Will he be bold enough to challenge it or will he run away?

In Garlic Theatre's award winning production, a delicious mix of wit humour and inventiveness combine to celebrate one of the most famous medieval legends of all time. With rod and glove puppetry, masks and live music.

 

Reviews and press cuttings

'The production had the children and adults enthralled. The puppets were beautiful, well engineered and employed in original and creative ways. I have asked teachers for their comments and they were rather similar to the responses from pupils ie brilliant, first class, really engaging, suspended disbelief and took children onto another plain of imagination.'
Susan Day Head of Education Fakenham School Norfolk

'Very solid, focused, creative puppetry '
James Grant, Little Angel Puppet Theatre

'Your magical performance was a delight to watch'
Norwich Arts Centre

Part of The Puppet Animation Festival 2002
Review by Thelma Good

Setting the mood from the beginning, Garlic Theatre's telling of this legend has medieval music and a couple of puppeteers who also perform like traveling players from that time. The dragon is a glorious leathery creation sporting a drum tummy, we hear him long before we see him in full flight. It begins as sheep and tonsured monks disappear from the hillside, the towns folk are getting worried barricading themselves in. Up at the castle the Chancellor hatches a plan using the dragon to get the princess in marriage and gold in his bag.