Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Directed
by Robert Garrigues
King Arthur, the most celebrated hero of British civilization,
was a genuine historical figure. Credited with the decisive steps toward
the making of a nation out of a tangle of warring fiefdoms, Arthur's story
as the legendary leader of the Knights f the Round Table has been recast
hundreds of times over the more that ten centuries since he made his first
impressions upon British life.
Lerner and Lowe's Camelot is a Twentieth Century play
about Arthur, in which the king is portrayed as a vulnerable person whose
challenge is to make his kingship serve human value and community, rather
than personal and political power. Playgoers share with Arthur the experience
of this difficult human passage, an episode of betrayal by both those who
love him and those who despise him. -Robert Garrigues